Use a space or greater than sign > in CSS selector? [duplicate]

Answer 1

if you use

.welcome div
{
   font-size: 20px;
}

css will applied to all div descendants of .welcome

if you use

.welcome > div
{
  font-size: 20px;
}

css will be applied only to direct child divs and not their descendants

please find link http://jsfiddle.net/65rL6/

Hope it helps!