Realy stuck on child selectors :(

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I tried everything. I even tested it in combination with opera and mozilla.
(I use IE 6 mostly)
It's reduced to the simple example below.

Please tell me what is wrong with my understaning of child selectors! I
realy dont know :(

<html>
<head>
<style>
p > span { background-color: blue }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
hello
<span>why isnt this blue? </span>
hello
</p>
</body>
</html>
Thank you,
Tom

Jul 20 '05 #1

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Sorry for the duplicate guys.

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I tried everything. I even tested it in combination with opera and mozilla. (I use IE 6 mostly)
It's reduced to the simple example below.

Please tell me what is wrong with my understaning of child selectors! I
realy dont know :(

<html>
<head>
<style>
p > span { background-color: blue }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
hello
<span>why isnt this blue? </span>
hello
</p>
</body>
</html>
Thank you,
Tom

Jul 20 '05 #2

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