The CSS type selector matches elements by node name. In other words, it selects all elements of the given type within a document.
/* All <a> elements. */ a { color: red; }
Type selectors can be namespaced when using @namespace
. This is useful when dealing with documents containing multiple namespaces such as HTML with inline SVG or MathML, or XML that mixes multiple vocabularies.
ns|h1
- matches<h1>
elements in namespace ns*|h1
- matches all<h1>
elements|h1
- matches all<h1>
elements without any declared namespace
Syntax
element { style properties }
Examples
CSS
span { background-color: skyblue; }
HTML
<span>Here's a span with some text.</span> <p>Here's a p with some text.</p> <span>Here's a span with more text.</span>
Namespaces
In this example the selector will only match <h1>
elements in the example namespace.
@namespace example url(http://www.example.com); example|h1 { color: blue; }