Styling a paragraph that is all italics [Archive]

danosirra

05-01-2006, 09:56 PM

Hi,

Wondering if anyone can help. I want to be able to apply a style to paragraphs that are entirely made up of italics.

So, if I have an italicized word mid-paragraph, I don't want the rule to be applied. But if the entire paragraph is encased in italics tags (i.e. a p followed immediately by an i tag at the beginning, and a closing i tag followed by a closing p tag at the end), then I want the style to be applied.

Please can you tell me how/if this can be done.

Thanks,

Dan.

Arbitrator

05-02-2006, 03:50 AM

You could try p i {foo}. This applies a style to tags that are a descendent of tags. Of course, it'll work on the contents of any within any so you can set classes on the specific you want to affect and use something like p i.STYLENAME {foo}.

So it would work with <body>foo</body> but not <body>foo</body>.

Resource: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#descendant-selectors