lmpontus

Hi David,

Thanks again for taking the time to look at this. I think the clarification is that it is indeed affecting all the elements I put inside the metaslider; however, some of these are also used outside metaslider. So that rule is making it difficult to re-use classes inside of metaslider.

Here’s what the https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#universal-selector says:

6.2.1. Universal selector and namespaces

The universal selector allows an optional namespace component. It is used as follows:

ns|*
all elements in namespace ns
*|*
all elements
|*
all elements without a namespace
*
if no default namespace has been specified, this is equivalent to *|*. Otherwise it is equivalent to ns|* where ns is the default namespace.

So, the * in there is actually capturing all the elements without a namespace. I have also seen the * being interpreted as all the elements inside .

There is also a stack overflow question about this here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6386447/meaning-of-in-css

… and one of the answers alludes to all the elements that’s a descendant of elements with the “.metaslider .msHtmlOverlay .layer” classes, which impacts all the items I put inside the slider.

Hi David,

On Chrome (60.0.3112.113), that star is affecting other classes as well (e.g. in our case we have a div with a class called newsbox. If I remove the star, all works as predicted.

Kind Regards,

Leo