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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Introduction to CSS Universal Selector

Introduction to CSS Universal Selector

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 Introduction to css universal selector

  1. CSS universal selector is a  represented by asterisk symbol (*) .
  2. CSS Universal selector  use to select all html element on web page and apply the same css rules to them.
  3. CSS universal selector defined (*)
  4. Every element  in the document regardless of type.
  5. Universal selector use global style.
  6. Universal reset default  browser style.

 Introduction to CSS Universal Selector
Syntax :

     *{
           property: value;
       }

Introduction to CSS Universal Selector

Example 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <style>
     p{  text-align:center;
         color:rgb(19, 47, 253);
         
             }
             div *{
                background-color: yellow;
             }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
      <div class ="pro">
       <h2> CSS Universal Selector (*)</h2>
       <p>Hello every one</p>
      <p>learn to programming language</p>
        </div>
     <p>HTML,CSS,PHP</p>
    <p>https://webdesigningtheory.blogspot.com/</p>
  </body>
  </html>

Introduction to CSS Universal Selector

Explain Program

Step  1] 

<!DOCTYPE html>

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

Step 2]

<html>.... . </html>

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

Step 3]

<head>
    <style>
     p{  text-align:center;
         color:rgb(19, 47, 253);
         
             }
             div *{
                background-color: yellow;

             }
   

    </style>
</head>

  •   <head>  section 

  •   head section contains metadata about page. not visible on the page itself.
  •    2.    CSS Style  
  • all <P> and <h2> element applies the same style .
  • text-align:center;          =  text is centered 
  • color:rgb(19,47,253);   =  blue text color
  • paragraph <P> tag And heading <h2> tag  on the centered and Blue.

 
<div>
       <h2> CSS Universal Selector (*)</h2>
       <p>Hello every one</p>
      <p>learn to programming language</p>
        </div>

  • (*) use universal selector 
  •  div* =  Select all element inside any <div> tag .
  • background-color:yellow;
  •  yellow background color  to everything inside the </div>
  • <h2>tag and <p> tag inside the <div> tag get a yellow background color 

Step  4] 

 <p>HTML,CSS,PHP</p>
    <p>https://webdesigningtheory.blogspot.com/</p>

 <p> tag  center aligned and background color blue.

Step 5] 

closing the Tag


  </body>
  </html>

Introduction to CSS Universal Selector

Output

css universal selector













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