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Posted by Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
12,022 Points

Can someone tell me the difference between this two selectors?

What is the difference between:

gallery li a p {}

and

gallery p {}

It seems to do the same thing when I preview my workspace, but in the video he uses the first selector.

1 Answer

Tsenko Aleksiev
Tsenko Aleksiev
3,819 Points

In "gallery" find all the "li"-s, find of there is an "a" in those "li"-s, now find all the "p"-s and apply css rules to those "p"-s. The other one is find all the "p" inside "gallery" and apply the css to those, no matter if the "p" is inside "li" and "a" or not. The first one is more concrete to apply the rule to and only to the "p"-s inside the list items and inside an anchor tag. Got it? :)

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
12,022 Points

Hah, yeah I got it. Didn't see the difference at first, because all the "p"-s inside "gallery" are in "a"-s who are in "li"-s. So in my case it doesn't make a difference, but in other code it can. Thnx!