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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Basic Selectors Basic Selectors Review

Posted by Irek Zagan
Irek Zagan
3,889 Points

Not sure "When targeting an element with a type selector:" means.

I do get it that we use the elements HTML tag, but could someone elaborate to clear off my confusion?

1 Answer

danielperezgomez
danielperezgomez
15,503 Points

Hi Irek! By "type" we mean the element's HTML tag. So if you want to target all "Heading 1" type elements, you would use "h1" when writing your CSS. Take a look at the example here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Type_selectors

In that example they target the <span> tags by using "span" in their CSS. This applies the styles to all <span> elements on the page/site. Hope that helps!