{"id":14196,"date":"2011-09-06T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?page_id=14196"},"modified":"2020-05-14T07:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:58:53","slug":"general-sibling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/selectors\/g\/general-sibling\/","title":{"rendered":"General sibling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The general sibling combinator (~) in CSS looks like this in use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">.featured-image ~ p {\n  font-size: 90%;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>In that example, you would be selecting all paragraphs in an article that come after the featured image (an element with a class name of &#8220;featured-image&#8221;) and making them of slightly smaller <code>font-size<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This selects elements at the same hierarchy level. In this example <code>.featured-image<\/code> and the <code>p<\/code> elements are at the same hierarchy. If the selector continued past the <code>p<\/code> or before <code>.featured-image<\/code>, the normal rules apply. So <code>.featured-image ~ p span<\/code> still would select spans that are descendents of whatever <code>.featured-image ~ p<\/code> matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spec for selectors level 4 calls these <a href=https://css-tricks.com/"http:////dev.w3.org//csswg//selectors4//#general-sibling-combinators\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Following Sibling Combinators&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"demo\">Demo<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s another example that highlights all of the <code>p<\/code> elements that follow an <code>img<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">img ~ p {\n  background-color: #FEF0B6;\n  padding: 5px;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Which will result in the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-codepen-gutenberg-embed-block cp_embed_wrapper\"><iframe id=\"cp_embed_dPQBRg\" src=https://css-tricks.com/"////codepen.io//anon//embed//dPQBRg?height=450&amp;theme-id=1&amp;slug-hash=dPQBRg&amp;default-tab=result\%22 height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allowpaymentrequest name=\"CodePen Embed dPQBRg\" title=\"CodePen Embed dPQBRg\" class=\"cp_embed_iframe\" style=\"width:100%;overflow:hidden\">CodePen Embed Fallback<\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"quirks\">Quirks<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>WebKit used to have a quirk where you couldn&#8217;t use these with pseudo selectors. Like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre rel=\"CSS\" class=\"wp-block-csstricks-code-block language-css\" data-line=\"\"><code markup=\"tt\">input:checked ~ div {\n   \/* Wouldn't work *\/\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the exact versions of browsers where this was fixed in, but it is fixed now.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"more-information\">More Information<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//child-and-sibling-selectors///">Child and Sibling Selectors<\/a><\/li><li>Similar to the <a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////css-tricks.com//almanac//selectors//a//adjacent-sibling///">Adjacent Sibling Combinator<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=https://css-tricks.com/"https:////developer.mozilla.org//en-US//docs//CSS//General_sibling_selectors/" rel=\"noopener\">MDN Docs<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"browser-support\">Browser Support<\/h3>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table browser-support-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Chrome<\/th><th>Safari<\/th><th>Firefox<\/th><th>Opera<\/th><th>IE<\/th><th>Android<\/th><th>iOS<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Any<\/td><td>3+<\/td><td>1+<\/td><td>9+<\/td><td>7+<\/td><td>Any<\/td><td>Any<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general sibling combinator (~) in CSS looks like this in use: In that example, you would be selecting all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"featured_media":0,"parent":14194,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-almanac-single.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0","_share_on_mastodon_status":"%title% %permalink%"},"tags":[],"acf":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14196"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311105,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14196\/revisions\/311105"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}