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CSS CSS Selectors Selectors - Beyond the Basics Child, Adjacent, and General Sibling Combinators

Kailash Seshadri
Kailash Seshadri
3,087 Points
Posted by Kailash Seshadri
Kailash Seshadri
3,087 Points

Adjacent Sibling Combinators

I don't understand how the adjacent sibling combinators work in the code below:

.btn + .btn {
  margin-left: 20px;
}

why does the reset button get a left margin but not the submit button?

Thanks!!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points

While it may be called an adjacent sibling selector, it's actually a following sibling selector. So ".btn + .btn" will select an element with class btn that immediately follows another element with the same class.

If you have two buttons of this class, the second one will be selected but the first will not be.