CSS Element Selector

CSS Element Selector is a straightforward CSS selector that uses the name of any HTML element as a selector for applying the CSS styles on those elements.

Syntax:

html_tag{
/* declarations */
}

Below is an example of a element selector implemented on paragraphs:

CSS Element Selector Example

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

    <head>
        <style>
            p { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:14px; color:#666699; } 
        </style>
    </head>

    <body>
        <p>The CSS style will get implemented in every paragraph element.</p>
        <p id="para1">This paragraph will also get affected.</p>
        <p>And This one will also get affected as element selector is set for 'p' i.e. all paragraph.</p>
    </body>

</html>

In the above example, the CSS Element selector has been applied to the HTML paragraph element. And all the paragraphs are being affected.

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