Unfamiliar CSS Symbols

[Avss]

Hi all
I've seen the use of "*", ">" and "," in CSS sample pages and templates on help sites. What do they mean and how are they used?

[Alan]

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[killermike215]

Those are advanced CSS selectors. * denotes a wildcard, such as when I do this:

* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

Which constitutes a global CSS reset; however, it should be avoided as it puts strain on the server to render all of it.

The > is a selector, such as ul > li, and such.

The , just separates values, such as a, a:hover, which will have common properties.