Understanding the universal selector

The universal selector selects everything in your document, the same way the "wild card" selector does in Linux. However, when you include the universal selector as part of a larger complex selector, confusion sets in. How exactly does the universal selector work?

By Jen Kramer
June 2, 2016
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