The next-sibling combinator (+) separates two selectors and matches the second element only if it immediately follows the first element, and both are children of the same parent element.
css
/* Paragraphs that come immediately after any image */
img + p {
font-weight: bold;
}
css
/* The white space around the + combinator is optional but recommended. */
former_element + target_element { style properties }
css
li:first-of-type + li {
color: red;
}
html
<ul>
<li>One</li>
<li>Two!</li>
<li>Three</li>
</ul>
| Specification |
|---|
| Selectors Level 4 # adjacent-sibling-combinators |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
Next-sibling_combinator |
1 | 12 | 1 |
7["Before Internet Explorer 10, the combinator only works in standards mode.", "Internet Explorer 7 doesn't update the style correctly when an element is dynamically placed before an element that matched the selector.", "In Internet Explorer 8, if an element is inserted dynamically by clicking on a link the first-child style isn't applied until the link loses focus."] |
3.5 | 1 | ≤37 | 18 | 4 | 10.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Next-sibling_combinator