Adjacent selector in CSS

The adjacent selector + allows you to select an element by its adjacent neighbor above.

Example

Let's look at all the p tags immediately after the h2 tags and color them red:

html<h2>text</h2>
<p>
  +
</p>
<p>
  -
</p>
<p>
  -
</p>

cssh2 + p {
  color: red;
}

Результат:

Example

Let's target all p tags immediately after elements with class .test and color them red:

html<p class="test">
  text
</p>
<p>
  +
</p>
<p>
  -
</p>

css.test + p {
  color: red;
}

Результат:

Example

Let's target all elements with class .elem immediately after elements with class .test and color them red:

html<p class="test">
  text
</p>
<p class="elem">
  +
</p>
<p>
  -
</p>

css.test + .elem {
  color: red;
}

Результат:

Practical tasks

html<ul>
  <li>1</li>
  <li>2</li>
  <li>3</li>
  <li>4</li>
  <li id="elem">5</li>
  <li>6</li>
  <li>7</li>
  <li>8</li>
  <li>9</li>
</ul>

html<ul>
  <li>1</li>
  <li class="elem">2</li>
  <li>3</li>
  <li>4</li>
  <li class="elem">5</li>
  <li>6</li>
  <li>7</li>
  <li class="elem">8</li>
  <li>9</li>
</ul>