the difference between General sibling combinator (~ )and child selector (>) in css

Question

I have been reading about CSS the last couple of days, and searched the internet for this question.

Could anyone please explain me whats the difference between (~) a

Answer 1

Some examples are shown below to show how the CSS selectors are used...
Example:

div>p

The above, selects all p elements where the parent is a div element Example:

p~ul

The above, selects every ul element that are proceeded by a p element