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Master different CSS selector types to target HTML elements.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS Selectors</title>
<style>
/* Element selector */
p { color: blue; }
/* Class selector */
.highlight { background: yellow; }
/* ID selector */
#special { font-weight: bold; }
/* Descendant selector */
article p { font-size: 16px; }
/* Child selector */
ul > li { margin: 5px 0; }
/* Adjacent sibling */
h2 + p { color: green; }
/* Attribute selector */
input[type="text"] { border: 2px solid blue; }
/* Pseudo-class */
a:hover { color: red; }
/* Pseudo-element */
p::first-line { font-weight: bold; }
/* Multiple selectors */
h1, h2, h3 { font-family: Arial; }
/* Universal selector */
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>CSS Selectors Demo</h1>
<p class="highlight">This paragraph has a class.</p>
<p id="special">This paragraph has an ID.</p>
<article>
<h2>Article Title</h2>
<p>This paragraph is inside an article.</p>
</article>
<ul>
<li>First item</li>
<li>Second item</li>
<li>Third item</li>
</ul>
<h2>Next Heading</h2>
<p>This paragraph follows an h2.</p>
<input type="text" placeholder="Text input">
<input type="email" placeholder="Email input">
<a href="#">Hover over me</a>
</body>
</html>CSS selectors target HTML elements. Element selectors (p), class (.name), ID (#name), descendants (div p), children (div > p), attributes ([type="text"]), pseudo-classes (:hover), and pseudo-elements (::first-line).