Type selector

Matches any element of the specified type.

Syntax

E { sRules }

Possible values

E	String that specifies the name of a document language element type.
sRules	String that specifies one or more cascading style sheet property/value pairs.

Remarks

A type selector matches every instance of the element type in the document tree.

Example

The following style rule applies to all the h1 tags within the document:

<style>
    h1 {color: teal; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.1em;}
</style>

Standards information

This selector is defined in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 1 (CSS1) .

See also

Concepts

Understanding selectors
Class selector
Equality attribute selector
Existence attribute selector
Hyphen attribute selector
ID selector
Prefix attribute selector
Substring attribute selector
Suffix attribute selector
Universal selector
Whitespace attribute selector

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