9. Defining Selectors
In This Chapter
Selecting Elements by Class or ID
Selecting an Element That Is the First or Last Child
Selecting the First Letter or First Line of an Element
Selecting Links Based on Their State
As you saw in “Constructing a Style Rule” in Chapter 7, there are two principal parts of a CSS style rule. The selector determines which elements the formatting will be applied to, and the declarations define just what formatting will be applied. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to define CSS selectors.
Whereas the simplest selectors let you format all the elements ...
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