Discussion on: How can I style an element based on multiple factors in CSS?

[Ben Sinclair]

I may be misunderstanding, but this would do what you want: button.specialButton.

[Calin Baenen]

But doesn't that only work if the item with .specialButton is inside of a button element (without the requirement for element to be a button)?
Or is it whitespace sensitive (i.e. button.specialButton != button .specialButton)?

[Ben Sinclair]

It's whitespace that's important:

• button.specialButton - a button with the class specialButton
• button .specialButton - any element with the class specialButton that's anywhere inside a button.
• button#verySpecialButton - a button with the id verySpecialButton
• button #verySpecialButton - any element with the id button that's anywhere inside a button.