Are descendant selectors more specific than child selectors?

Descendant selectors are not more specific than child selectors. The specificity of a selector is determined by its type and how it targets elements within the HTML document. A descendant selector selects all elements that are nested within a specified parent element, regardless of how deeply nested they are. For example, in the selector div p, any <p> inside a <div>, regardless of whether it is a direct child or nested further down the hierarchy, will be selected.

On the other hand, a child selector targets only the immediate children of a specified element. For example, in the selector div > p, only the <p> elements that are direct children of the <div> will be selected.

Because the child selector is more restrictive by only selecting immediate children, it is considered to be more specific in terms of the structure of the HTML. Therefore, the statement that descendant selectors are more specific than child selectors is false.