The adjacent sibling selector is used to select an element that is directly after another specific element. Sibling elements must have the same parent element, and “adjacent” means “immediately following”.

What is a sibling in coding?

Any subnode of a given node is called a child node, and the given node, in turn, is the child’s parent. Sibling nodes are nodes on the same hierarchical level under the same parent node.

How do I choose a sibling in CSS?

CSS adjacent sibling selectors come as a pair of selectors and select the second one, if it immediately follows the first one in order of appearance in an HTML page. If, x, y and z are three HTML elements and y and z resides next to each other within x, then y and z are called as adjacent sibling selectors.