Title: CSS hierarchy selector problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CSS hierarchy selector problem

 *  [decimal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/decimal/)
 * (@decimal)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-hierarchy-selector-problem/)
 * I’m designing a wordpress theme for general use, all text links have a border-
   bottom applied on the hover state. When an image is placed into the post, it 
   inherits this state, which I obviously do not want.
 * This only occurs when an unaligned image is placed in the post. Aligned right,
   left & centered images are placed in a div, unaligned images are placed in the
   p tag by default.
 * I can’t access this unaligned image through CSS, here’s the HTML hierarchy when
   an image is posted….
 *     ```
       <div class="the-post">
       <p>
       <a href="image.jpg">
       <img class="gen-class-name" src="location">
       </a>
       </p>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * I’ve tired accessing it through CSS by a lot of different structures, i.e.
 *     ```
       a:hover img
       p a img:hover
       p img:hover
       .the-post p a img.class-name:hover
       ```
   
 * and set the border to 0.
    I’ve given up on the CSS as firebug is telling me the
   CSS is taking precedence, but it is still showing up. Is there a way of placing
   an unaligned image into a div without changing any core files (just theme filses)?

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-hierarchy-selector-problem/)
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