Sent by Els on 8 March 2006 06:06
Scott Haneda wrote:
> I don't even know how to search this one out, excuse the basic
> question:
>
> #subNavlist li
> ul#subNavlist
> Can someone explain to me the difference in putting the html
> part you want before the css name, versus after:
> ul.myname
> myame.ul
No, that last one is incurrect.
> Its not at all making sense to me, I would think I would want
> to do li#subNavlist but that does not work.
The id or class is always *after* the elements name, as in
ul#subNavlist, or you can use it *without* the element's name, as
in #subNavlist.
When you see an element's name after an id or class, as in
'#subNavlist li', there is a space between them, and it means the
second element is a child of the first one.
Some examples:
'ul#subNavlist li' means a <li> element, that is a child of a
<ul> element with id="subNavlist".
'#subNavlist li' means a <li> element, that is a child of any
element with id="subNavlist".
'ul#subNavlist' means a <ul> element with id="subNavlist".
'div.foo' means a <div> element with class="foo".
'.foo' means any element with class="foo".
'.foo div' means a <div> element which is a child of any element
with class="foo".
If you're ever in doubt what a certain string of classes,
elements and or id's means, paste it into the Selectoracle for
clarification:
http://gallery.theopalgroup.com/selectoracle/
HTH
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