thank you, Philippe. That answers my question.
I was "hoping" that the combinator could go upward in the document tree, but my
experiments with that weren't working. It was an off-the-wall bet that I
could change styles based on whether another element were present in a
neighboring document tree. Ultimately,this confirms that the sibling combinator
doesn't work as an "aunt" or "uncle" combinator.
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On Nov 14, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
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> On Nov 15, 2011, at 5:09 AM, Paceaux wrote:
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>> 1. Does the non-adjacent sibling combinator ( ~ )only go in one directIon?
>> If I attempt .address ~ .newsletter, I can successfully style
>> newsletter.
>> I I try .newsletter ~ .address, I cannot style newsletter
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> This combinator only works in one direction: downwards in the document tree
> (as is always the case with CSS selectors so far - they never go 'up')
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>> 2. Is it possible to select a child of a sibling, like so:
>> .newsetter > #nav_social ~ .address
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> That may work, assuming that both #nav_social and .address are descendants of
> .newsletter.
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> As David suggests, a simple html test case would be helpful to understand
> what you're trying to do.
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> Philippe
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