The Definitive Guide to HTML5

C H A P T E R  17

Using the CSS Selectors—Part I

In Chapter 4, I explained that you use CSS selectors to identify which elements you want to apply a style to when using the style element or an external stylesheet. In this chapter and the next, I describe and demonstrate the core CSS3 selectors. You will see how easy it is to make selections and how you can tailor those selections to meet broad or very specific conditions.

These selectors were introduced over time and in different versions of CSS. The mainstream browsers have fairly good support for all of the selectors, but you might find that coverage in less popular browsers is a little patchy. To help you work out what you can rely on, I have indicated in which version of CSS each selector ...