How to select multiple elements that are children of given element?

Question

I have

and I need to select all pre and div elements that are children of #mydiv.

I coul

Answer 1

The only way to reference the id only once is to use it with the * selector:

#mydiv > * {

which will apply to all elements that are children of that div.

Depending on what styles you plan to apply this might be workable (I typically use this to zero-out margins, padding and border styles), but it's still probably best to do it the first way because it makes it easier to make exceptions/changes later down the road.