1.0CSSPortalhttps://www.cssportal.com/blogWhat does ">", "+" and "~" do in CSS - CSSPortalrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="kaxObcf6ro"><a href="https://www.cssportal.com/blog/what-does-and-do-in-css/">What does “>”, “+” and “~” do in CSS</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.cssportal.com/blog/what-does-and-do-in-css/embed/#?secret=kaxObcf6ro" width="600" height="338" title="“What does “>”, “+” and “~” do in CSS” — CSSPortal" data-secret="kaxObcf6ro" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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You have probably all seen these characters in your CSS files, so what exactly do they do? Before we answer that, the characters that we are going to look at today are: > (greater than), + (plus sign) and ~ (tilde).