Fotiman
msg:4078595 | 7:48 pm on Feb 11, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Are you trying to style something like this?
<p>
<ul>...</ul>
</p>
If that's what you're trying to do, you should note that <p> elements can't contain <ul> elements, so the browser will close the first <p> implicitly when it encounters the <ul>.
If that's not what you are trying to do, perhaps you can post the relevant markup snippet.
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pillsbur
msg:4078599 | 8:01 pm on Feb 11, 2010 (gmt 0) |
No, no, I know about p and ul being block level elements. ;-)
I'm doing something very simple:
<p>Here is some content.</p>
<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
</ul>
I don't want to style every <p> on the page, just the <p> that's followed by <ul>.
Does that help?
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alt131
msg:4078602 | 8:06 pm on Feb 11, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| how do I indicate "precedes" instead of "follows"? |
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So far as I am aware, you can't.
However, can you reverse the thinking - for example if you have
<p> ... </p>
<ul ... </ul>
<p> ... </p> |
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Can you get at the p as [size=3]ul + p[/size] ?
Or, the general sibling combinator [size=3]ul ~ p[/size] for something like:
<ul> ... </ul>
<h2> ...</h2>
<p> ...</p> |
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[edit]for semantics[/edit]
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CSS_Kidd
msg:4078603 | 8:10 pm on Feb 11, 2010 (gmt 0) |
You are thinking about Adjacent sibling selectors [w3.org]
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alt131
msg:4078605 | 8:14 pm on Feb 11, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| You are thinking about Adjacent sibling selectors [w3.org] |
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As the OP specified, the question was how to select the preceeding element, not the following element.
[edit]For grammar ... sheesh ;)[/edit]
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pillsbur
msg:4078637 | 8:59 pm on Feb 11, 2010 (gmt 0) |
My goal in this is to remove the whitespace above a <ul>. That requires margin-top:0 for the <ul> and margin-bottom:0 for the <p>. However, I don't want to set margin-bottom:0 on every <p> on the page.
I suppose I could do a class declaration just for those <p>s I want to change, but that seems so......manual.
But, if selectors can't do it -- and I think I agree that it can't be done -- then a new class will have to be the way.
Thanks.
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