> From: russ - maxdesign

> I remember when I first
> started getting into CSS, code like this would make me freak out:
[...]
> So, for those that are reasonably new to CSS, I'd thought I'd 
> break it down
> into bite size pieces.

And for those rare occasions where Russ isn't handily available to break down 
complex selectors, you can visit the "selectoracle" 
http://gallery.theopalgroup.com/selectoracle/ 

A bit more concise than the step by step explanation, but useful nonetheless. 
The example in question

div.content a[href^="http:"]

comes out with the following translation:

"Selects any a element with a href attribute that begins with http:  that is a 
descendant of a div element with a class attribute that contains the word 
content."

Patrick
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