Combining Selectors and Their Specificity

In this lesson, we’ll examine various CSS selectors and how they impact specificity. Understanding how different selectors contribute to specificity allows us to write efficient CSS and avoid unintended style overrides. We’ll cover combinators, pseudo-classes, pseudo-elements, and attribute selectors.

Combining selectors

Selectors can be combined to target elements more precisely, affecting their specificity.

Descendant combinator

A single space ( ) selects elements that are descendants of a specified ancestor.