Hi guys I’m going through the CSS Flexbox chapter and currently doing the following challenge: https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/css-flexbox/add-flex-superpowers-to-the-tweet-embed No problem with the challenge itself, I’m just trying to figure out this notation as it’s the first…

You have the name of the selector right it is a descendant selector (or combinator). The styles in the class will apply to any element with the class, using the descendant selector scopes it to only apply the styles to elements inside the element. Let say for some reason you had two profile-thumbn…

CSS descendant combinator?

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pccfpp June 20, 2019, 2:33pm 4

Thanks guys, answers on point!

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