From: Chris Beall 
Reply-To:  Chris_Beall@prodigy.net
Newsgroups: alt.html
Subject: Re: Question about CSS selectors
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:16:17 GMT

Jeanne D wrote:

> This is probably really obvious, but I can't find what I'm looking to
> do in my DHTML and CSS manual.
> 
> I want to have two different selectors specified on one line of type.
> 
> The Great Escape .... by JD
> 
> I wanted the The Great Escape to be in one font and ... by JD in
> another. How do I do that? Thanks much.
> 
Jeanne,

Hmmm.  This looks like a citation, so you could use something like:

The Great Escape .... by JD

Then, in the CSS:

cite {
       font-family: whatever1 ;
      }
author {
          font-family: whatever2 ;
         }

That would apply whatever2 to ANY element of class author.  If that's 
too general, you could instead say:

cite span.author {
                   font-family: whatever2 ;
                  }

Which means "apply this style to any  of class author that is the 
descendant of (i.e. contained inside) a ".

The exciting details of CSS selectors can be found at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html.  I recommend ingestion of a 
stimulant before reading.

Chris Beall