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/* The “descendant” combinator. */ /* Only paragraphs inside the header. */ header p { color: blue; } /* The “child” combinator. */ /* Only immediate children paragraphs of `body`. */ body > p { color: gray; } /* “Adjacent sibling” combinator. */ /* Only immediately preceded by another paragraph. */ p + p { color: teal; } /* “General sibling” combinator. */ /* Only paragraphs following `h2`. */ h2 ~ p { color: green; }
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Combinators</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body> <header> <h1>Combinators are handy</h1> <p>This paragraph should be <em>blue</em>, since it is inside the header.</p> </header> <p>This paragraph should be <em>gray</em>, as an immediate child of <strong>body</strong>.</p> <p>This one should be <em>teal</em> though, as it follows another paragraph.</p> <p>Same for this one.</p> <h2>This heading doesn’t have a style itself</h2> <p>But will make this following paragraph <em>green</em>.</p> <p>And this one too, still after the heading.</p> </body> </html>