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Selectors choose the element to apply formatting to

 


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
     <head>
      <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/xhtml; charset=windows-1252" />
      <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" />
        <title>Selectors and Grouping</title>
        <style type="text/css" media="all">

            p {
                font-family: Arial;
                font-size: 14pt;
            }

            h1 {
                color: black;
                border: 5px solid black;
            }
            h2 {
                color: orange;
                border: 4px solid orange;
            }
            h3 {
                color: blue;
                border: 3px solid blue;
            }

            h1, h2, h3 {
                letter-spacing: 5px;
                padding: 10px;
                border: 3px solid red;
            }
        </style>
     </head>
     <body>
        <h1>
            Heading 1
        </h1>
        <h2>
            Heading 2
        </h2>
        <h3>
            Heading 3
        </h3>
        <p>
            This is a test. 
        </p>
    </body>
</html>








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