Selecting All Elements

The universal selector(*) matches every element in the document.

 
<!DOCTYPE HTML> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>Example</title> 
        <style type="text/css"> 
        * { 
            border: thin black solid; 
            padding: 4px; 
        } 
        </style> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
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        <p>I like <span>HTML</span> and CSS.</p> 
    </body> 
</html>

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