Select all child elements recursively in CSS

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Use a white space to match all descendants of an element:

div.dropdown * {
    color: red;
}

x y matches every element y that is inside x, however deeply nested it may be – children, grandchildren and so on.

The asterisk * matches any element.

Official Specification: CSS 2.1: Chapter 5.5: Descendant Selectors

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