仅在特定元素内引用CSS类

Question

I have defined this:

.grade a{
    color: white;
}

It works. too well..

I have an html like so

<li class="grade">
   <a><i class="fa fa-star fa-fw"></i></a>
      My Text 
</li>

The bootsrap i star element is painted white. And I don't want it to.

How can I only specify element with a of class .grade

<a class="grade"> Text here should be white </a>

and not other elements?

Answer 1

As is, you are selecting any a element which is a descendant of an element with the class grade .

To specify an a element that has the grade class itself, change your selector to:

a.grade

 a.grade { color: red; } .grade a { color: green; } 

 <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <li class="grade"> <a><i class="fa fa-star fa-fw">Text within an &lt;a&gt; descendant of .grade</i></a><br> Text outside of &lt;a&gt; element </li> <a class="grade"> Text in an &lt;a&gt; element, which has the class grade itself. </a> 

Answer 2

Use style like below

a.grade {
  color : red;
}

Demo : https://jsfiddle.net/e73t9mtk/

Answer 3

Use typeTag.className for target a element:

 li.grade { color: red; } li.grade ai { color: green; } a.grade { color: blue; } 

 <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"> <li class="grade"> <a><i class="fa fa-star fa-fw"></i></a> My Text </li> <a class="grade"> Text here should be white </a> 

Answer 4

Firstly, you never said what color you wanted the i to be, only that you didn't want it to be white. So I'll assume it should be the same color as the body. Write this.

body, .grade i {
  color:#777;
}

Secondly, if you want not only the a elements inside a .grade white, but only the a s that have class grade themselves, you will have to add a.grade as a selector too.

.grade a, a.grade {
  color: white;
}

So the complete code to do what you want is as follows.

 html { background:#ddd; } body, .grade i { color:#777; } .grade a, a.grade{ color: white; } 

 <ul> <li class="grade"> <a><i class="fa fa-star fa-fw">(icon goes here)</i></a> My Text </li> </ul> <a class="grade"> Text here should be white </a> 

(Note that I added a bit of text to the icon, to make it visible in the absence of FontAwesome.)