# CSS for individual tables in a post **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Tags:** css\ **Created:** [May 11, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-for-individual-tables-in-a-post/87284 "2018-05-11T18:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
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If you can’t target them by id or class, by position? eg. instead of main-st → smith, main-st → second-house What I generally do is go up the DOM until I find an ancestor element with an id, or in lieu of that a few elements with classes, and then go to the child element I want to target. If need be, a “first”, “last” or “nth” pseudo-class should do the job. > **[Pseudo-classes - CSS | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Selectors/Pseudo-classes)** > > A CSS pseudo-class is a keyword added to a selector that lets you select elements based on information that lies outside of the document tree, such as a specific state of the selected element(s). For example, the pseudo-class :hover can be used to... --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-for-individual-tables-in-a-post/87284)._