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Descendant Selectors in CSS
The CSS element selector is used to select the descendant of first element with element name matching the second selector.
Syntax
The syntax for CSS descendant selector is as follows −
element element {
/*declarations*/
}Example
The following examples illustrate CSS descendant selector −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
float: right;
margin: 25px;
padding: 5px;
width: 80px;
height: 80px;
border: solid aqua;
}
div div {
border-color: blue;
border-radius: 50%;
}
div div div {
border-color: orange;
border-radius: unset;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div>
<div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>Output
This gives the following output −
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
li li {
background-color: lightsteelblue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ol>
<li></li>
<ul>
<li>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<li></li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>Output
This gives the following output −
Updated on: 08-Jan-2020
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