The ">" (eg ul>li ) is the symbol for child selector. It only selects child elements, not grand-child, great grand-child etc. Whereas the simple space eg( ul li ), called the descendant selector, selects all descendant elements -- grand-child, great grand-child etc.
~Chetan On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Brian Jones <bdotjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Chetan Crasta <chetancra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Made a number of changes to the CSS. You can see the fixed page here: >> http://roughtech.com/t/dropdown.html >> >> The changes I made to the CSS can be seen here: >> http://roughtech.com/t/dropdown_files/dropdown.css >> I have commented the changes as "my change". >> >> ~Chetan >> > > Thanks Cheatan. Good stuff. What does it mean when you use the less > than symbol like this ul.dropdown>li>a > > > > -- > -bdot > "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand > binary and those who don't" > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
