CSS & CSS3: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Accessing Selectors

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The means by which you access one or more elements is called selection, and the part of a CSS rule that does this is known as a selector. As you might expect, there are many different varieties of selector.

For example, you can select by the type of element to be styled (such as <p>, <div>, <img>, and so on), by whether an element is contained within another (is descendant), by descendant elements that are direct children (and ...