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title: "Parent selector using CSS"
description: "Parent selector using CSS"
author: "Sandra Emily"
published: 2024-06-05
updated: 2024-06-06
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/160687/parent-selector-using-css
category: "css-css3"
tags: ["css-css3", "css", "css selector"]
reading_time: 2 minutes
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# Parent selector using CSS
[Parent selector](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157984/is-there-a-css-parent-selector) using CSS
## Replies
### Reply by Ashutosh Patel
### Parent selector
CSS does not have a [parent](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/154/how-to-find-parent-of-control-in-wpf) [selector](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23419/action-selector-in-mvc). It only allows you to select elements based on their relationship to the other elements like (child, descendant, sibling, ).
You can also achieve similar effects by using the following CSS techniques.
## Using Specificity
You can create your selector more uniquely to target elements in a specific context. \
If you have a specific parent with a unique class or ID, you can target its children accordingly.
```css
.parent-class .child-element {
/* Styles for child elements in .parentClass */
}
```
Let's say you have a specific structure where you want to style child elements based on their parent class
## HTML
```html
```
## CSS
```css
/*Style child elements differently based on the class of their parent*/
.parent:nth-child(1) .child {
color: blue; /* first parent's child make blue color */
}
.parent:nth-child(2) .child {
color: red; /* second parent's child make red color */
}
```
This technique allows you to indirectly style child elements based on the position or class of their parent, although it is not a true "parent selector", as there is no direct way to select parent elements in CSS.
## Example-
```html
Parent selector Example
Parent selector
```
**Also, Read** [Remove bullets from unordered list using CSS](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/160688/remove-bullets-from-unordered-list-using-css)
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