In my HTML I have,
If it's just 1 and 2 you don't want the style applied to you can do something like this instead:
.container {
background: yellow;
}
.container:first-child,
.container:first-child + .container {
background: transparent;
}
The yellow background will apply to every container except for the first child and the one following it.
Try the following code.It will apply styles to all .container
classes except 1 and 2:
.container+.container~.container{
/*styles*/
}
css:
.wrapper div:nth-child(n+3) { /* you style*/ }
Reason and Explanation
(0+3) = 3 = 3rd Element
(1+3) = 4 = 4th Element
(2+3) = 5 = 5th Element and so on ... where n=0,1,2,3.....
Live example >>
For those after a dynamic solution (if you don't want to hard-code the column widths etc), I've published a javascript solution, based on this excellent answer.
Working example
Usage:
// After including tableColumnFreeze.js
var freezer = document.getElementById('freezer');
new TableColumnFreeze(freezer);
Markup:
<div id="freezer">
<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Column 1</th><th>Column 2</th><th>Column 3</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><th>Frozen</th><td>Not frozen</td><td>Not frozen</td></tr>
<tr><th>Frozen</th><td>Not frozen</td><td>Not frozen</td></tr>
<tr><th>Frozen</th><td>Not frozen</td><td>Not frozen</td></tr>
<tr><th>Frozen</th><td>Not frozen</td><td>Not frozen</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
.container ~.container{
padding: 0
margin: 0
}
I used to apply all classes except first class.
:nth-child()
doesn't work on classes, it looks for the element itself. You'd need to wrap the .container
divs by a wrapper and use the following:
.wrapper div:nth-child(n+3) {
/* put your styles here... */
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="container"></div>
<div class="container"></div>
<div class="container"></div>
<div class="container"></div>
</div>
Working Demo.
:nth-child()
Using .container:nth-child(n+3)
may or may not work. Because, :nth-child()
pseudo-class represents nth
child element matching the selector (.container
in this case).
If the .container
element isn't the nth-child of its parent, it won't be selected.
From the Spec:
The
:nth-child(an+b)
pseudo-class notation represents an element that hasan+b-1
siblings before it in the document tree, for any positive integer or zero value ofn
, and has a parent element.
Consider this example:
<div class="parent">
<div>1st</div>
<div>2nd</div>
<div>3rd</div>
<div class="container">4th</div>
<div class="container">5th</div>
<div class="container">6th</div>
<div>7th</div>
<div class="container">8th</div>
<div>9th</div>
</div>
In this case, .container:nth-child(2)
won't select the 2nd div.container
element (which has 5th
content). Because that element is not the 2nd child of its parent, in parent's children tree.
Also, .container:nth-child(n+3)
will select all the div.container
elements because n
starts from 0
for the first element in the parent's children tree, and the first div.container
is the 4th child of its parent.
n starts from 0
n = 0: (0 + 3) = 3 => 3rd element
n = 1: (1 + 3) = 4 => 4th element
n = 2: (2 + 3) = 5 => 5th element
...
Hence div.container:nth-child(n+3)
represents all the 3rd, 4th, 5th, ... child elements matching div.container
selector.
Online Demo.