How do CSS combinators work?

CSS combinators can be used in many ways and they can help you to write more efficient CSS rules. There are three types of CSS combinators: The first type is the "pseudo-class". This is the most common type of combinator and it's used for styling particular parts of the page or document. The second type is the "class" which is used to group elements together with similar styles. The third type of selector is the "attribute" which allows us to target particular elements on an HTML element with a specific class name.

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Course Content

Introduction to CSS

20m 57s

How to use LearnVern

3m 20s

How to Insert CSS - Inline, Internal & Extern CSS

24m 49s

Comments in CSS

8m 55s

Assignment : Introduction

2m 38s

CSS Selectors

24m 5s

Pseudo Selector - Elements in CSS

27m 2s

Psuedo Elements in CSS

32m 56s

Understanding CSS Combinators

22m 29s

Understanding Child Selectors in CSS

17m 50s

Assignment : Different Selectors

7m 15s

Important Rule in CSS

12m 40s

Understanding Specificity in CSS

21m 50s

Assignment : CSS Specificity

2m 8s

Background Property in CSS

23m 5s

Border Property & Outline In CSS

56m 8s

Assignment : Background and Border Properties

2m 33s

Display Property in CSS

28m 20s

Text Alignment Property in CSS

22m 42s

Position Property in CSS

32m 46s

Positioning Property with Float in CSS

21m 2s

Assignment : Display and Position Properties

4m 51s

Understanding Height & Width Properties in CSS

14m 20s

Overflow Property in CSS

19m 23s

Assignment : Cursor & Button Property

7m 51s

Understanding List Styling in CSS

22m 10s

Understanding Calc function in CSS

17m 26s

Understanding Visibility Property in CSS

13m 7s

Understanding print properties in CSS

19m 49s

Cursor Property in CSS

16m 16s

Button Property in CSS

28m 30s

Styling Images in CSS

18m 16s

Image Filter Property in CSS

31m 14s

Assignment : Implementing Images

2m 36s

Understanding Colors in CSS

38m 34s

Understanding Shadow Effects in CSS - Box Shadow & Text Shadow

25m 37s

Understanding CSS Gradients

26m 48s

Masking in CSS

17m 42s

Assignment : Color, Gradient and Shadow

4m 26s

Fonts in CSS

40m 59s

How to Add Icons in CSS

20m 57s

Understanding Line Height, Padding and Margin in CSS

34m 44s

Understanding Line Height, White Space & Word Break in CSS

36m 36s

Understanding Text - Transformation in CSS

33m 50s

Understanding Text-align Property in CSS

35m 6s

Understanding Text Indent and Text Stroke property in CSS

21m 16s

Understanding columns in CSS

12m 50s

Understanding Hyphen property in CSS

15m 1s

Assignment : Font & Text Properties

5m 39s

Understanding Transformation and Resize property in CSS

35m 28s

Understanding 2D Transformation in CSS

23m 41s

Understanding 3D Transformation in CSS

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Assignment : Transformation

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Understanding Transition Delay property in CSS

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Understanding Animation in CSS

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Understanding keyframes Rule in CSS

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Assignment : Animation

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Understanding Z Index property in CSS

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Assignment : Z-index

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Understanding Media Queries in CSS

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Assignment : CSS Media Queries

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Course Summary

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Career Guideline In CSS

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Interview Question

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FAQs

A combinator is a term used to describe the relationship between selectors. There can be more than one simple selector in a CSS selector. A combinator can be inserted between the simple selectors.

Browsers use specificity to determine which CSS property values are the most relevant to an element and, as a result, will be applied. Specificity is determined through matching rules, which are made up of many CSS selectors.

The descendant combinator — typically represented by a single space (" ") character — combines two selectors such that elements matched by the second selector are selected if they have an ancestor (parent, parent's parent, parent's parent's parent, etc) element matching the first selector.

CSS combinators are a set of CSS properties that are used to combine multiple selectors into a single selector. They allow us to write CSS rules in a more compact and readable way.

CSS combinators can be used in many ways and they can help you to write more efficient CSS rules. There are three types of CSS combinators:
The first type is the "pseudo-class". This is the most common type of combinator and it's used for styling particular parts of the page or document. The second type is the "class" which is used to group elements together with similar styles. The third type of selector is the "attribute" which allows us to target particular elements on an HTML element with a specific class name.