<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Syntax and parsing</title> <style type="text/css"> p { background: lime; } .two\ words { background: red; } /* the "." and "~=" forms match on a space separated list of words. In such a list, a word containing a space can never match, since it would by definition be two words. */ </style> <link rel="first" href="css3-modsel-1.html" title="Groups of selectors"> <link rel="prev" href="css3-modsel-155a.html" title="Syntax and parsing"> <link rel="next" href="css3-modsel-155c.html" title="Syntax and parsing"> <link rel="last" href="css3-modsel-d5e.html" title="NEGATED :indeterminate with :checked"> <link rel="up" href="./index.html"> <link rel="top" href="../../index.html"> </head> <body> <p class="two words">This line should have a green background.</p> </body> </html>