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CSS

Posted by Luke Buśk
Luke Buśk
21,598 Points

How popular is Adjacent Sibling Selector in CSS?

Just finished some CSS courses and im wondering, how popular is Adjacent Sibling Selector? Are You guys using it pretty often or its better to go with classes and id's? What about compatibility with different browsers?

1 Answer

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

As with most things in programming, it depends. I think it's often a better choice to use a CSS selector over adding a non-semantic class. As a general rule of thumb if you can select the desired element with 3 or less parts in your selector you should consider using CSS.

The adjacent sibling selector is CSS2, so it's supported most everywhere.