CSS element element Selector

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Example

ol li {
  background-color: red;
}

Meaning

The element element selects descendent tags.

The descendant selector matches all elements that are descendants of a specified element.

The above example selector matches all <li> elements that are descendants of a <ul> element—that is, every <li> element that has a <ul> element as its ancestor.

Version: CSS1




Standard Syntax

element element {
  css declarations;
}



Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.




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