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Saturday, January 17, 2026

CSS Element Selector Explained with Examples

 

CSS Element  Selector Explained with Examples

  
web designing theory
CSS Element Selector selects and styles specific HTML  Element.
Element Selector is defined as Element name in  stylesheet.

Syntax

 CSS Element  Selector Explained with Examples


element 
{
property:value;
 
}

 CSS Element  Selector Explained with Examples

 Examples 


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title> css element selector</title>
        <style>
          h1{

             color:cadetblue;
          }                  
          div{
            border: 5px inset gold;
            color:dodgerblue;
             text-align:center;
           
           

          }                                                                                                  
        </style>
            </head>
            <body>
                <div>
           <h1> css element Selector </h1>
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           </div>
            </body>
</html>



 CSS Element  Selector Explained with Examples

 Explain Program 

Step  1] 

<!DOCTYPE html>

  • This declare the document type.
  • browser that the document is written in html

Step 2]

<html>.... .

  • html is the root element of the html page.
  •  Every thing inside it is part of the webpage.

Step 3]

text tag  text appears on the browser tab.

 
<head>
        <title> css element selector</title>



Step 4]

<head>
    <style>
   
  h1{

             color:cadetblue;
          }                  
          div{
            border: 5px inset gold;
            color:dodgerblue;
             text-align:center;         

          }  

    </style>
</head>


  1)  Internal CSS (<style>)

 
            h1{
 
color:cadetblue;
          }

  
  •  h1  is an element selector.
  • Applies to all <h> tags.
  • Change the text color <h1>  to cadetblue

 2) div Element Selector 

div
{

            border: 5px inset gold;
            color:dodgerblue;
             text-align:center;
            }  

  

     All div Element 

    1) border:5px  inset  gold;
           Add gold border with inset style
   2) color: dodgerblue;
          Sets the text color inside the div.
   3) text-align:center;
         Text center inside the div.

Step 5] 

<body>
                <div>
            <h1> css element Selector </h1>
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         </div>

 

  •   <div> is container for grouping content.
  •  Heading text 
  • Paragraph tag
  • Styled by the h1 CSS rule
 Element Selector
  •  <h1>{ }  ➡ styles all   
  • <div> {}   ➡ styles all 
Step 6] 

closing the Tag


  </body>
  </html>


 CSS Element  Selector Explain