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From Glossary of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification (1998-05-12) | Glossary for this source

An element A is called a descendant of an element B, if either (1) A is a child of B, or (2) A is the child of some element C that is a descendant of B.
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events (2000-11-13) | Glossary for this source

A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
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From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13) | Glossary for this source

A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
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From XML Path Language (XPath) (1999-11-16) | Glossary for this source

The descendants of a node are the children of the node and the descendants of the children of the node.

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