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Answer 1

+1 A:

* is a wildcard selector and simply matches all elements, so body > * will match all direct children of the body element.

Will Vousden 2010-02-02 12:19:48

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Tor Valamo 2010-02-02 12:19:55

Answer 3

A:

body > * means "any element that is a direct child of the body element."

Compare this to body *, which means "any element that is a descendant of the body element." So this would also match the <a> element in <body><p><a>...</a></p></body>, for example.

Thomas 2010-02-02 12:20:27

Answer 4

A:

'*' refers to all elements, and '>' means immediate child elements, so body > * means all immediate child elements of the body.

It's probably a hack of some kind to refer to a particular browser, though I'm not familiar with it.

John McCollum 2010-02-02 12:21:14

Answer 5

+2 A:

body > * means "any direct child of the body tag", e.g. consider the following scenario

<body>
    <h1>This will be affected by body > *</h1>
    <div>
        This also
        <p>This will not be affected, because it is not a direct child</p>
    </div>
</body>

Residuum 2010-02-02 12:21:29

Answer 6

+2 A:

The > character is a match indicator and the * is the match being indicated.

So

body > *

means to match any child of Body.

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

Joel Etherton 2010-02-02 12:22:09

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