Type selectors
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The CSS type selector matches elements by node name. In other words, it selects all elements of the given type within a document.
/* All <a> elements. */
a {
color: red;
}
Type selectors can be namespaced when using {{CSSXref("@namespace")}} . This is useful when dealing with documents containing multiple namespaces such as HTML with inline SVG or MathML, or XML that mixes multiple vocabularies.
ns|h1- matches<h1>elements in namespace ns*|h1- matches all<h1>elements|h1- matches all<h1>elements without any declared namespace
Syntax
element { style properties }
Examples
CSS
span {
background-color: skyblue;
}
HTML
<span>Here's a span with some text.</span>
<p>Here's a p with some text.</p>
<span>Here's a span with more text.</span>
Result
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Namespaces
In this example the selector will only match <h1> elements in the example namespace.
@namespace example url(http://www.example.com/);
example|h1 {
color: blue;
}
Specifications
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Browser compatibility
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