*, the universal selector

- [Instructor] Finally, neither a pseudo class … nor a pseudo element, we have the universal selector. … It's designated by a star. … And as that star suggests, it's going to select everything … matching a certain criteria. … So, one of the things that I have done through the years … is I've often set up the body tag here … with some default styling for the document. … Like a font family or a font size, those kinds of things. … One of the things you might be tempted to do immediately … is to change your body tag to the star selector. … And boom, absolutely nothing changes here … in the way this webpage looks. … It has simply selected everything in the document … and applied those font families. … So what would be the difference … between using the body tag and using the star tag? … Well the problem is, you're using the wrong declaration here … for testing the star value. … So the difference is, in the case of the body tag, … everything is inheriting that font family. … But in the case of the star, …