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CSS selectors are
patterns used in CSS rules to target and select specific elements for styling.
Note: This page is an index of all selectors in CSS. The CSS selectors page introduces the module that defines some, but not all, of these selectors.
For example, to style paragraphs, you will use the p type selector to select all <p> elements and apply a style to them:
Check the pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements pages for their respective specification tables.
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