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- What does the gt; (greater-than sign) CSS selector mean?
> (greater-than sign) is a CSS Combinator(Combine + Selector) A combinator is something that explains the relationship between the selectors A CSS selector can contain more than one simple selector Between the simple selectors, we can include a combinator There are four different combinators in CSS3: descendant selector (space) child
- CSS gt; selector; what is it? - Stack Overflow
If you're looking into less-well-used CSS selectors, you may also want to look at +, ~, and [attr] selectors, all of which can be very useful This page has a full list of all available selectors, along with details of their support in various browsers (its mainly IE that has problems), and good examples of their usage
- What does the ~ (tilde squiggle twiddle) CSS selector mean?
The ~ selector is in fact the subsequent-sibling combinator (previously called general sibling combinator until 2017):
- What is the purpose of the @ symbol in CSS? - Stack Overflow
The ProBoards CSS style also uses these as variables Here's a small snipptt from one of their CSS pages: @wrapper_width: 980px; @link_color: #c06806; @link_font: 100% @default_forum_text_font_family; @link_decoration: none; #wrapper { width: @wrapper_width; margin: 0 auto; overflow-x: hidden; } table { table-layout: fixed; } a { cursor: pointer; color: @link_color; font: @link_font; text
- What does an asterisk (*) do in a CSS selector? - Stack Overflow
The CSS that you referenced is very useful to a web-designer for debugging page layout problems I often drop it into the page temporarily so I can see the size of all the page elements and track down, for example, the one that has too much padding which is nudging other elements out of place
- In CSS what is the difference between . and - Stack Overflow
The dot( ) signifies a class name while the hash (#) signifies an element with a specific id attribute The class will apply to any element decorated with that particular class, while the # style will only apply to the element with that particular id
- css selectors - What does * mean in CSS? - Stack Overflow
This is a common technique called a CSS reset Different browsers use different default margins, causing sites to look different by margins The * means "all elements" (a universal selector ), so we are setting all elements to have zero margins, and zero padding, thus making them look the same in all browsers
- What does an before a pseudo element in CSS mean?
Found this on Google, needs a little update as CSS nesting is now native, rather than just the preserve of SASS (and other CSS processors) You can find details about this here: W3C - CSS Nesting Module Working Draft, 14 February 2023, while some examples can be seen here: MDN - Using CSS nesting Both Chrome and Firefox support CSS Nesting
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