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  • Descendant combinator
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Descendant combinator

Since UXP v3.0

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Descendant_combinator

Example

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footer sp-button {
margin: 12px;
}
Class selector
General Sibling combinator
Padma Krishnamoorthy
Last updated 3/8/2023
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