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Stuart Howell
2,021 Pointsgallery li a p selector question
In gallery li a p selector, surely the margin: 0 overwrites the margin: 2.5% in gallery li selector above it?
1 Answer
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsI think specificity plays a part here, and the element structure in your HTML.
the paragraph is the primary element here. We want list items to have a margin but we don't want this for the paragraphs or the links inside them, so we do want to override that property. The list item will retain its margin but instead of inheriting the same value the child elements will lose the value altogether. :-)
Stuart Howell
2,021 PointsStuart Howell
2,021 PointsThanks for the answer, so gallery li a p is a child element of gallery li, so won't overwrite it?
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsThat's right, HTML elements have a "parent/child" relationship.
So if you look at a structure like this
Div is the parent element of p and h2. Whereas p is a child element of div but a parent element of span And h2 is a sibling element to p. :-)
Stuart Howell
2,021 PointsStuart Howell
2,021 PointsPerfect, thank you! :)