I'm trying to apply styling for only the p and a elements that are a descendant of any element with class "some-class". Per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Selector_list, the code below should provide the expected behavior. However, the styling is unexpectedly being applied to all the p elements. Interestingly, I am able to get the correct behavior if I reorder the list of descendants, i.e. .some-class p,a. Can someone explain why this might be?
FYI - I've run the code in both Firefox and Chrome with the same results.
<html>
<head>
<style>
.some-class a,p {
color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<p>should not be red</p>
</div>
<div class="some-class">
<p>should be red</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You select all a-elements that are inside elements with a classname of some-class, then you select all p-elements. You must specify that you also want to select all p-elements that are inside elements with a classname of some-class, like this:
.some-class a,
.some-class p {
color: red;
}
And a more modern way of doing the same:
.some-class :is(a,p) {
color: red;
}