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Thomas Hewitt
17,691 PointsHow do I select the last element of a group in CSS?
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to create a carousel of images using a background image sprite that I've made in CSS.
I have the image nested within a couple of elements. Starting with a div, then an <a> element within that div and then finally within the <a> there is another div which houses the individual background image sprites.
Now I know I could do this with a class but I want to learn how to use different selectors to improve my CSS.
How would I go about getting the last sprite to be a different width to the others using css?
Would I use some kind of nth of selector?
Right now all of them are 99px in with but I want the last one to be 80px. I could do it with inline styling or I could use a class but that's just avoiding learning how to use different types of selectors.
I appreciate the help from everyone as always.
1 Answer
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 PointsYou could use :last-child
e.g.
a > div > img:last-child { width: 80px; }
You may still want to use classes at least as identifiers for your containers or the <a> tags so you can access the children in a reasonable fashion without lots of chaining in the declaration as in the example above.