CSS Selector Style

Question

Simple question, and probably reflects my inexperience with CSS, but...

When creating a style sheet I like to explicitly specify the '*' wild card, so:

*.TitleText {

instead of just

.TitleText {

I find it reminds me that TitleText is applied to "any" tag, and can be overridden by a subsequent h1.TitleText. Maybe I just like this because for the longest time I didn't get that whole CSS selector concept properly and when I realized that the second (above) was just shorthand for the first, a lot of things "clicked".

Is what I do bad practice, good practice, or neither here nor there?

Answer 1

I don't know whether it's good or bad, but I've been doing CSS work as part of web app development for several years and I've never seen anyone use the * character.