Sibling Selector with +
<!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"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> li + li { font-style:italic; color:blue; } </style> </head> <body> <p class="my-class">p.my-class</p> <div id="my-id"> <ol> <li>div ol li</li> <li>div ol li</li> <li> <p class="my-class">div ol li p.my-class </p> </li> </ol> </div> </body> </html>