last-child in CSS

The :last-child psuedo-selector allows the developer to target the last child element of its parent. But you need to qualify it with the element that you are targetting. Something that has caught me out in the past has been applying the selector to the parent itself:

/* Nope - this won't work and you'll feel silly */
ul:last-child {
  border-bottom: none;
}

It kind of makes sense, right? I want the last child of that unordered list. But no: pseudo-selectors, such as :last-child, :hover, and :checked work on the state of the specified element.

In the common scenario of wanting to style the last element in a list differently, you can use the following code example:

li {
  border-bottom: 1px solid #f3f3f3;
}

li:last-child {
  border-bottom: none;
}

When that list element finds itself as the :last-child of its parent, the browser will remove its border.