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Descendent Selectors

Explore descendant selectors in CSS and understand how to apply styles to elements based on their position within the HTML hierarchy. Learn how to style nested tags like changing the color of strong tags inside specific parent elements for more precise design control.

Descendent selectors let you take advantage of the page hierarchy by styling tags differently when they appear inside certain tags or styles.

For example, let’s say you have an <h1> tag on your web page and you want to emphasize a word within that heading with the <strong> tag. However, most browsers display both <h1> and <strong> in bold, so you’d ...