NIELIT Gorakhpur
Course name:O level SUBJECT:WEB DESIGNING AND PUBLISHING
Topic:CSS DATE:20/3/2020
CSS Selectors
CSS selectors are used to "find" (or select) the HTML elements you want to style.
The CSS element Selector
The element selector selects HTML elements based on the element name.
Example
Here, all <p> elements on the page will be center-aligned, with a red text color:
p {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
The CSS id Selector
The id selector uses the id attribute of an HTML element to select a specific element.
The id of an element is 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.
Example
The CSS rule below will be applied to the HTML element with id="para1":
#para1 {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
Note: An id name cannot start with a number!
The CSS class Selector
The class selector selects HTML elements with a specific class attribute.
To select elements with a specific class, write a period (.) character, followed by the class
name.
Example
In this example all HTML elements with class="center" will be red and center-aligned:
.center {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
You can also specify that only specific HTML elements should be affected by a class.
Example
In this example only <p> elements with class="center" will be center-aligned:
p.center {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
HTML elements can also refer to more than one class.
Example
In this example 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!
The CSS Universal Selector
The universal selector (*) selects all HTML elements on the page.
Example
The CSS rule below will affect every HTML element on the page:
* {
text-align: center;
color: blue;
}
The CSS Grouping Selector
The grouping selector selects all the HTML elements with the same style definitions.
Look at the following CSS code (the h1, h2, and p elements have the same style
definitions):
h1 {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
h2 {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
p {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
It will be better to group the selectors, to minimize the code.
To group selectors, separate each selector with a comma.
Example
In this example we have grouped the selectors from the code above:
h1, h2, p {
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
Assignments
1. what are selectors? What are different type of selector?
2.Explain grouping selectors with example.
