What is a Selector and how it is used in CSS?

A selector is an HTML tag at which a style is applied. This could be any tag like <h1> or <table> etc.

The following figure describes what a Selector is:

Let us see an example of Type Selector, to set color:

h1 {
   color: #36CFFF;
}

Lakshmi Srinivas

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Updated on: 30-Jan-2020

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