Thanks all.

I finally decided to wrap the major groupings in a <div class="by-country"> 
wrapper, and set margin-bottom for the .by-country class.

Rick Gordon

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On 8/30/10 at 10:25 PM +0200, Joergen W. Lang wrote in a message entitled
"Re: [css-d] Adjacent Sibling Selectors in Reverse?":

>If I understand your question correctly, something like the stuff  below might 
>work for you. I used the following HTML, based on your example:
>
><p>1st paragraph</p>
><p>2nd paragraph</p>
><h2>Some heading</h2>
><p>3rd paragraph</p>
><p>4th paragraph</p>
><p>5th paragraph</p>
>
>and this CSS:
>
>p              { color: green; }
>h2 + p, p + p  { color: red; }
>
>The first p before the h2 gets green text. All others are red. Which selectors 
>are needed to style the elements after the h2 depends on your HTML.
>
>This is not very nice - but it works. The basic idea is to use a generic 
>selector for the special case and then override it with more specific 
>selectors for the other elements.
>
>The first rule targets all p elements. The second rule overrides this for
>
>a) p elements that directly follow a h2 element (3rd p) and
>b) for all p elements that have another p element as an adjacent
>   sibling (2nd, 4th and 5th p).
>
>According to the current draft for CSS3 selectors there may be a :nth-of-type 
>selector which might be just the thing you're after. More on the new selectors 
>can be found here:
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#selectors
>
>hope this helps,
>
>Joergen

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