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Tommy Olsson and Paul O'Brien

It matches elements regardless of type.

This is an immediate child of the division.

The selector div * em will match the following em elements:
?– ???Universal??? in the h1 element (* matches the

)
?– ???emphasize??? in the p element (* matches the
)
?– ???not??? in the first li element (* matches the
or the
)
?– ???type??? in the second li element (* matches the
or the
)
However, it won??™t match the immediate element, since that??™s an immediate
child of the div element??”there??™s nothing between
and for the * to
match.
Compatibility
Selector Reference
Opera Safari Firefox Internet Explorer
9.2 3.0 2.0 1.3 2.0 1.5 1.0 7.0 6.0 5.5
Full Full Full Full Full Full Full Buggy Buggy Buggy
Internet Explorer versions up to and including 6 exhibit the star HTML selector
(p. 400) bug: selectors that should fail, don??™t. A descendant selector, such as * html,
shouldn??™t match any elements, because the html element is the top-most parent
element and, as such, it can??™t be a descendant of any other element.

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