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Descendant Selectors

  
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
    <head>
        <title>Descendant Selectors</title>
<style type='text/css'>
body {
    font-face: sans-serif;
}
h1 {
    margin: 5px;
}
p {
    border: 1px solid rgb(200, 200, 200);
    background: rgb(234, 234, 234);
    padding: 5px;
    margin: 5px;
}
p.note {
    background: yellow;
    border: 1px solid gold;
}
span.code {
    font-family: monospace;
    padding: 0 10px;
}
p span.code {
    background: yellow;
}
p.note span.code {
    background: lightyellow;
}
</style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
            Descendant selectors apply styles based on ancestral relationships.
            <span class='code'>&lt;span&gt;</span> element named <em>code</em>,
            which is a descendant of <span class='code'>&lt;p&gt;</span> elements.
            To do this, the selector <span class='code'>p span.code</span> is used.
        </p>
        <p class='note'>
            The note text is given different styles.  To do this another descendant
            selector is used.  This time the selector is <span class='code'>p.note
            span.code</span>
        </p>
    </body>
</html>

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