Chapter 19  Learning Advanced CSS Selectors

HTML elements enable web page designers to mark up a document's structure, but beyond trust and hope, you don't have any control over your text's appearance. CSS changes that. CSS puts the designer in the driver's seat. — Håkon Wium Lie

This chapter covers

  • Learning the powerful ID and universal selectors
  • Leveling your style game with the descendant, child, and sibling selectors
  • Targeting your styles by combining two or more selectors
  • Becoming a style master by understanding CSS inheritance, cascading, and specificity

On the surface, CSS seems like a simple topic: You apply values to some properties, combine them into a rule, and then apply that rule to a page element. Repeat a few more times, and ...

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