HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 3

Selectors: Coding with Class and Style

In This Chapter

Modifying specific named elements

Adding and modifying emphasis and strong emphasis

Creating classes

Introducing span and div

Using pseudo-classes and the link tag

Selecting specific contexts

Defining multiple styles

You know how to use CSS to change all the instances of a particular tag, but what if you want to be more selective? For example, you might want to change the background color of only one paragraph, or you might want to define some special new type of paragraph. Maybe you want to specify a different paragraph color for part of your page, or you want visited links to appear differently from unselected links. The part of the CSS style that indicates what element you want to style is a selector. In this chapter, ...