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title: "How do I remove a combinator from my style?"
date: "2018-03-13T07:34:59+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to effectively remove combinators from your styles using descendant selectors. Discover the power of spaces in CSS and simplify your stylesheets for cleaner, more maintainable code."
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url: "/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/help/65496-how-do-i-remove-combinator-my-style"
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You don't. You apply a Descendant selector. These use a (Space).

By default all child selectors are Descendant selectors. These use a (Space). For this reason, if you have applied a different combinator, for example, an Adjacent sibling (+),  you can remove it by re-applying the Descendent selector (Space).

For more information, see [Using combinators](https://sitestudiodocs.acquia.com/6.0/user-guide/using-combinators "Using combinators").