I am making great progress on my new design, and one of the decisions I made was to just forget about IE and use all the css I want. This lead to perhaps the best CSS selector I have ever written:
li:not([class=pingback]) .comment-content p:first-child:first-letter
Which is one of the selectors I use to style the comment section of my new design. Not bad, is it?
Do you want a better understanding of your own CSS selectors? Then check out the CSS specificity calculator that explains your selectors.
So, for this week, Tell me your best CSS selector!
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