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CSS

Posted by brandonlind2
brandonlind2
7,823 Points

is there a difference between div p and div > p?

for example these basically do the same thing right? Im a bit confused as to why the first exists in the CSS language

div > p {
    background-color: yellow;
}

vs

div p {
    background-color: yellow;
}

1 Answer

Jakob Wozniak
Jakob Wozniak
17,896 Points

Here's what I got:

[div > p] selects only the p that are children of the div. So if you had a div with lists or whatever inside that had their own p, their properties would not be affected by this selector.

[div p] selects all descendant p in the div. So any p that is inside, or descendant, of a div would be affected.

This probably isn't the best example of the difference between the child selector (>) and the descendant selector, but I hope this helps!

brandonlind2
brandonlind2
7,823 Points

yeah that makes sense thanks man