Newbie question on universal selector

[milk4140]

Hello,

I’m just starting to learn CSS and have come across some selectors that I can’t quite interpret (in CSS written by a more experienced predecessor):

#itemid * table
#itemid * table * th, #itemid * table * td

Are the universal selectors functioning as wildcards for the ancestors of the various table elements here? And if so, why is a universal selector needed between table and th and table and td, respectively?

And more importantly: how do I override this individual instances? Can I do so using a class created for the table element?

Thanks in advance!

[RioBrewster]

Looks like a specificity hack to me. Why you would need that I don’t know.

Maybe there’s an

#itemid table

defined somewhere else.

And yes a class for the table should override the nested elements.

[Shikkediel]

I can’t the the difference with leaving the * out altogether either.

[milk4140]

Thank you!

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