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Creating Styles for Nested Tags

There can be times when you want a specific formatting to be applied when one tag is nested within another. For example, perhaps you want a bulleted list that’s nested within another bulleted list to use a different bullet character.

If you simply created a rule for the entire tag, all text that used it would be formatted the same way. For example, if you created a style for the <ul> tag, all bulleted items would use the same bullet character. Instead, you must specify that you want to apply a rule only to the nested tag. To do this, instead of using a single style name at the beginning of the rule, specify that the item is nested by listing the parent style name followed by the descendent (child) style name. For ...