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CSS CSS Basics Basic Selectors Descendant Selectors

With regards to styling the education elements only descendant of the education ID...

I thought an ID could appear only once per document? If this is the case, wouldn't using a descendant selector be redundant? I'd have thought a class would have been more appropriate.

1 Answer

you could use the selector when you want to specify an element within the container element.

An example of that wouldl be for example selecting an id of #nav, but targetting the links inside the nav, for a specific state

#nav a :hover{
border-bottom:5px solid red;
}

Hope this helps