General Sibling Selector in CSS

  • The General Sibling Selector in CSS is a selector that allows you to select elements that are siblings of a specified element and appear after it in the HTML structure. It is denoted by the tilde (~) symbol.
The syntax for the General Sibling Selector is:


    element1~element2 {
      /* styles */
    }

  • In this syntax, `element1` is the element that precedes `element2`, and the styles within the curly braces will be applied to `element2` if it is a sibling of `element1`.
Here's an example to help illustrate how the General Sibling Selector works:


  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>

  <head>
    <style>
      /* Selects any <p> element that is a sibling of an <h2> element */
      h2~p {
        color: red;
      }

      h2~h1 {
        color: blue;
      }
    </style>
  </head>

  <body>

    <h2>Title</h2>
    <p>This paragraph will be styled.</p>
    <p>This paragraph will also be styled.</p>
    <h2>
      Another Title
      <p>new 1</p>
      <h1>Lorem, ipsum.</h1>
    </h2>
    <p>This paragraph will not be styled.</p>
    <h2>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</h2>
    <h1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit, amet consectetur adipisicing.</h1>
    <p>This paragraph will not be styled either.</p>
  </body>

  </html>

  • It's important to note that the General Sibling Selector only selects elements that appear after the specified element. It does not select elements that appear before the specified element or elements that are not siblings.
  • Overall, the General Sibling Selector in CSS is a useful tool for targeting and styling specific elements that come after a certain element within the HTML structure. We also target elements through classes and IDs.

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