Adjacent sibling selectors ,
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Adjacent sibling selectors will select the sibling right away following a component.
For example, you might want to target an <h3> component,
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<body>
<h2>Heading 2 <em>text</em></h2>
<h3>Heading 3 text</h3>
<p>This is <em>text</em> and more <strong>text</strong></p>
</body>
The document tree would be:
Using the subsequent rule, you can goal any <h3> that follows an <h2>:
h2 + h3 margin: -1em;
Adjacent sibling selectors also work for inline elements such as <em> and <strong>
Using the following rule,
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em + strong color: blue;
Adjacent sibling selectors are not supported by Windows Internet Explorer 5,
Office Enterprise 2007, 5.5 and 6, but are supported by most other standards-compliant browsers.
Further information W3C CSS2 Specification: Adjacent sibling selectors DevEdge CSS2 Selectors Support Chart WestCiv Selectors Support Chart
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