Can one of you CSS experts explain this designator (if that's even what you'd call it) to me? I understand the contents, just not the a.button.gold. Two dots?
a.button.gold{
background-color: #b9972f;
}
I am trying to modify a couple of styles on a Wordpress theme and would have a lot more success with it, if I could figure out what is currently happening.
Thanks
The selector simply means select any a
element having class .button
AS WELL AS .gold
so your anchor tag should look like
<a href="#" class="button gold">Hello</a>
Demo
The selector can be also written as element[attr~=val]
as @BoltClock Commented like
a[class~="button"][class~="gold"] {
color: #f00;
}
Demo
Generally the above(Not the selector, but calling multiple classes for a single element method) is also used when you want to apply properties of 2 classes to a single element, so say for example you have .demo
having color: green;
and .demo2
having font-weight: bold;
so using
<p class="demo demo2">Hello, this will be green as well as bold</p>
Will make it green as well as bold. Demo 2
This selector represents an <a>
element with two classes, as you can have as many classes (separated with a white-space in the class attribute itself) in CSS as you'd like. The HTML would look like:
<a href="#" class="button gold">Test</a>
If the <a>
had three classes you'd just continue the pattern:
<a href="#" class="button gold test">Test</a>
a.button.gold.test {
color: peachpuff;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/NeqAg/
This means, the background color specified will be applicable to all <a>
tags whose "class" attribute has a value of either "button" or "gold".
For example, if you have a tag
<a href="#" class="button">Button</a>
and another tag
<a href="#" class="gold">Gold</a>
then, the background color for both the classes will be the same specified one.