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CSS

Posted by Bhanu Awasthi
Bhanu Awasthi
1,780 Points

Giving text color using concept of Combinators

I was trying to give black color to text using '~' Combinator, and marquee tag

Syntax:

<marquee> (with some javascript inside marquee for hover effect)
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
</marquee>

marquee ~ p
{
color: black;
}

Paragraphs are not picking black colors that are inside marquee.

4 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You are confusing the general sibling selector with the descendant selector. Switch it out and you will be good to go.

Bhanu Awasthi
Bhanu Awasthi
1,780 Points
Bhanu Awasthi
Bhanu Awasthi
1,780 Points

Thanks for the reply but its still not working ,Patrick

Patrick Gerrits
Patrick Gerrits
14,614 Points
Patrick Gerrits
Patrick Gerrits
14,614 Points

Ahh sorry for that, wasn't thinking straught. I think the marquee HTML tag is not valid anymore. You need to use CSS animations to accomplish this. I think that is better.

Patrick Gerrits
Patrick Gerrits
14,614 Points
Patrick Gerrits
Patrick Gerrits
14,614 Points

Try marquee~p . So without spaces.