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Can I target all <H> tags with a single selector?

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What is the correct selector for targeting?

The target selector is used to represent a unique element (the target element) with an id matching the URL's fragment. It can be used to style the current active target element. URLs with a # followed by an anchor name link to a certain element within a document.

How would you select all the p tags on a page?

Element Selectors The most basic of the selectors is an element selector. For example, paragraphs in an HTML document are represented by the p element and wrapped in <p></p> tags. To select all paragraphs in a document we would use the following selector. To select all level 1 headings we would use the h1 selector.


No, a comma-separated list is what you want in this case.


If you're using SASS you could also use this mixin:

@mixin headings {
    h1, h2, h3,
    h4, h5, h6 {
        @content;
    }
}

Use it like so:

@include headings {
    font: 32px/42px trajan-pro-1, trajan-pro-2;
}

Edit: My personal favourite way of doing this by optionally extending a placeholder selector on each of the heading elements.

h1, h2, h3,
h4, h5, h6 {
    @extend %headings !optional;
}

Then I can target all headings like I would target any single class, for example:

.element > %headings {
    color: red;
}

It's not basic css, but if you're using LESS (http://lesscss.org), you can do this using recursion:

.hClass (@index) when (@index > 0) {
    h@{index} {
        font: 32px/42px trajan-pro-1,trajan-pro-2;
    }
    .hClass(@index - 1);
}
.hClass(6);

Sass (http://sass-lang.com) will allow you to manage this, but won't allow recursion; they have @for syntax for these instances:

@for $index from 1 through 6 {
  h#{$index}{
    font: 32px/42px trajan-pro-1,trajan-pro-2;
  }
}

If you're not using a dynamic language that compiles to CSS like LESS or Sass, you should definitely check out one of these options. They can really simplify and make more dynamic your CSS development.


The new :is() CSS pseudo-class can do it in one selector.

For example, here's how you could target all headings inside a container element:

.container :is(h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6)
{
    color: red;
}

Most browsers now support :is(), but keep in mind that most browsers made before 2020 didn't support it without a prefix, so be careful about using this if you need to support older browsers.

In some cases, you may instead want to use the :where() pseudo-class, which is very similar to :is() but has different specificity rules.


SCSS+Compass makes this a snap, since we're talking about pre-processors.

#{headings(1,5)} {
    //definitions
  }

You can learn about all the Compass helper selectors here:


The jQuery selector for all h tags (h1, h2 etc) is " :header ". For example, if you wanted to make all h tags red in color with jQuery, use:

$(':header').css("color","red")

Stylus's selector interpolation

for n in 1..6
  h{n}
    font: 32px/42px trajan-pro-1,trajan-pro-2;