Chapter 2. Getting Your Styles to Hit the Target
A valid and well-structured document provides the foundations to which your styles are applied. To be able to style a particular HTML element using CSS, you need to have some way of targeting that element. In CSS the part of a style rule that does this is called the selector.
In this chapter, you will learn about
Common selectors
Advanced selectors
New CSS 3 selectors
The wonderful world of specificity and the cascade
Planning and maintaining your style sheets
How to comment your code
Common selectors
The most common kinds of selectors are type and descendant selectors. Type selectors are used to target a particular type of element, such as a paragraph or a heading element. You do this by simply specifying ...
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