Comments on: Eric’s Universal Child Selector

By: funky house

funky house — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:36:30 +0000

this will surely help me css hell, become heaven!!

By: alkatraz

alkatraz — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:49:41 +0000

Great article!

Are these techniques still relevant today?

By: ant1832

ant1832 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Oh man this is really great. I had an issue on IE mac related to this. I wanted to automatically draw a border around child divs, but not affect the grandchild divs. I tried this out and it did the trick.

I thought I was going to have to do a ton of reworking on the css file. Thanks for giving me some of my time and sanity back.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

My pleasure, ant1832. It wasn’t the easiest concept to explain, so I’m glad the message got through. :)

By: cranial-bore

cranial-bore — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

excellent. I always wondered what the id>element syntax used in the hacks meant.
And I learnt something new with the * wildcard too.

By: cob

cob — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Very useful. Thank you!

By: Si

Si — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Thats a great technique to future-proof your CSS too. The IE hacks may be fixed on the next launch of IE (emphasis on "may"!) so this saves one of the issues with the box-model hack and we wont have to go back and fix all our old sites that use the hack as and when M$ sort IE out. Good thinking Eric.

By: Tim_Rogovets

Tim_Rogovets — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Yeah this is a great trick.
I'm using it very often in my code.
Makes things a lot simplier

By: Rutger

Rutger — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

great stuff! Thanks for explaining this.

By: icky_bu

icky_bu — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

wow, learning something nearly every visit to sitepoint :) thanks!