The lobotomized owl selector: * + *

[ralphm]

I really enjoyed this article on the “The lobotomized owl selector”: http://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls

Basically, it argues for something like this:

* + * {
	margin-top: 1.5em;
}

over something lie this:

.element {
	margin-top: 1.5em;
}

(See the specific demo of this here.)

[PaulOB]

Yes interesting article and technique.

I’d be interested to try it in a new project and see if it works without having to make too many exceptions.

I do tend to style things with h2 + p or similar anyway so the ‘owl’ could be a useful short cut.