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

Posted by Dwi Andreas Prawiranegara
Dwi Andreas Prawiranegara
7,181 Points

Combinator for multiple children

Can we use combinators to target multiple children? For example under <h1>, we have children: <h2>, <label>, <h3>, <input>. User would like to target <h2> and <h3> under <h1>. Could we use 1 single line of code, instead of manually writing one code for each child like shown in below?

h1>h2 { font-size:2px; }

h1>h3 { font-size:2px; }

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

Sure, you can have multiple selectors for the same rule, separated by commas:

h1>h2, h1>h3 { font-size:2px; }

I should point out that this element structure would not be good practice. A heading element should only contain phrasing content, which would not include other headings.