[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]
Specifies an adjacent sibling relationship between selector elements.
Syntax
first>second { ... }
Parameters
- first
-
A CSS simple selector.
- second
-
A CSS simple selector.
Standards information
Remarks
A child combinator is a "greater-than sign" (>) character that separates two simple selectors. Whitespace is not significant. A selector of the form "E>F" matches when element F is a direct descendant of element E.
Note Requires Windows Internet Explorer 7 or later.
Note Combinators are not supported in webpages that are displayed in the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 document mode (also known as "Quirks" mode). To use attribute selectors, add a !DOCTYPE directive that specifies a standards-based document. For more information, see Defining Document Compatibility.
Examples
The following style rule matches only p elements that are immediate children of the body element.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN">
<html>
<head>
<style>
BODY > P { line-height: 1.3; color: red;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Paragraph one</p>
<div><p>Paragraph two</p></div>
<p>Paragraph three</p>
</body>
</html>
Build date: 3/14/2012