CSS SELECTORS
CSS Syntax and Selectors
CSS Syntax and Selectors
Example:
p {
color: red;
text-align: center;
}
CSS Syntax and Selectors
CSS Selectors
CSS selectors are used to "find" (or select) HTML elements based on their element name,
id, class, attribute, and more.
The element Selector
The element selector selects elements based on the element name.
You can select all <p> elements on a page like this (in this case, all <p> elements will be
center-aligned, with a red text color):
Example:
p {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
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The id Selector
The id selector uses the id attribute of an HTML element to select a specific element.
The id of an element should be unique within a page, so the id selector is used to select one unique
element!
To select an element with a specific id, write a hash (#) character, followed by the id of the element.
The style rule below will be applied to the HTML element with id="para1":
Example:
#para1 {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
Note: An id name cannot start with a number!
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The class Selector
The class selector selects elements with a specific class attribute.
To select elements with a specific class, write a period (.) character, followed by the name of the class.
In the example below, all HTML elements with class="center" will be red and center-aligned:
Example:
.center {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
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You can also specify that only specific HTML elements should be affected by a
class.
In the example below, only <p> elements with class="center" will be center-aligned:
Example:
p.center {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
HTML elements can also refer to more than one class.
In the example below, the <p> element will be styled according to
class="center" and to class="large":
<p class="center large">This paragraph refers to two
classes.</p>
Note: A class name cannot start with a number!
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CSS Comments
Comments are used to explain the code, and may help when you edit the source code at a later date.
Comments are ignored by browsers.
A CSS comment starts with /* and ends with */. Comments can also span multiple lines:
p {
color: red;
/* This is a single-line comment */
text-align: center;
}
/* This is
a multi-line
comment */
