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2: Selectors

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Using a Child Combinator

The direct descendant is a great one or the child combinator rather. I call it like a recursion buster in that every time that you put this little greater than sign between two simple selectors. The next type of combinator is called a sibling combinator to be more specific. This would apply to an element that's the next sibling of the one before it. One example that I really like is called the lobotomized owl hack slash method.

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