19 Learning Advanced CSS Selectors
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 voilà: your page is beautiful. But the apparent simplicity of CSS is only skin deep. Underneath the straightforward implementation of declarations and rules are obscure caves of complexity and unfathomed depths of dynamism. This chapter serves as ...
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