Re: CSS Question

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 18:55, Wanda J. Hall wrote:
> In my quest to learn CSS, I bought a book, "Eric Meyer on CSS," and am
> faithfully following along with lessons, page by page.  On the subject of
> id's and selectors, I have this snippet of CSS:
> 
> td#advert {width: 234px;}
> #content-top id {color: white; vertical-align: middle;}
> tr td#sidetop {background: #663300;)
> 
> Now, I understand that an id is a label for a cell, table, table row, etc;
> and the definition given for the "#content-top...." is a "descendant
> selector:  selects an element that's a descendant of another."
> 
> I guess I'm not really understanding what this means.  All the statements
> look pretty much alike and I don't understand why it wasn't written like the
> one's above and below it.  I.E.: id#content-top.
> 
> Can anyone clarify this for me??


Looks like a typo to me, I'm not aware of an "id" element perhaps Eric
meant #content-top .id {}

I would reference the recommendations for more info.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html

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