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CSS

Posted by Dennis White
Dennis White
6,122 Points

For the decendent selector, couldnt you use the "address p" to target the P element? Do you have to use header element?

Could you write it this way as well?

address p { color: red; }

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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1 Answer

Dane Parchment
MOD
Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,077 Points
Dane Parchment
Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,077 Points

Can you please provide the HTML that you are trying to style? It would help narrow down exactly what you mean.

I will make an assumption that you have something setup like this:

<header>
   <address>
       <p>Address text</p>
   </address>
</header>

And that you're asking if you can just use address p {} to target the paragraph tag.

You would be correct! However, there is a pretty big caveat. The problem is, you will be targeting all paragraphs that are children of address tags. When it comes the the specificity of selectors you always want to be a precise as you can be. If you are okay with selecting all of the address paragraph tags, then you are fine. However, if we have something like this:

<header>
   <address>
       <p>Address text</p>
   </address>
</header>
<div>
   <address>
     <p>More Address text</p>
   </address>
</div>

Then you'll also be selecting the address text inside of the div, which may not be what you want. (The better selector would honestly be making one of those a class and then using a descendent selector on that class, but that's a different thing).

So that's probably why they did something like header address p {} to target that specific paragraph.

Now I'm making a bunch of assumptions, which is why it's important to show your code when asking questions! :)