# footer.p vs “footer p” selector?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-p-vs-footer-p-selector/654473
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [November 7, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-p-vs-footer-p-selector/654473 "2022-11-07T02:54:44Z")
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### Author:  [@polaryeti](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/polaryeti)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-p-vs-footer-p-selector/654473/1 "2022-11-07T02:54:44Z")
footer.p vs “footer p” selector?
I’ve html code like this:
` `
I want to select it.
```auto
CSS:
footer p{
font-size:16px;
}
```
But footer.p isn’t working. “footer p” works though. Why is footer.p not working? I’ve seen div.p selector being used in lots of places.
**Descendant selector:**
It selects all descendants of an ancestor. In this case, all p inside footer.
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-p-vs-footer-p-selector/654473/2 "2022-11-07T04:17:39Z")
When you have a selector like `footer.p`, what you are matching is an element that looks as follows:
```auto
```
The dot in the selector refers to a class value 🙂
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### Author:  [@polaryeti](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/polaryeti)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-p-vs-footer-p-selector/654473/3 "2022-11-07T06:12:10Z")
Thank you. I’d seen div.p somewhere and thought div.p meant selecting paragraph inside a div.