:last-child

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The :last-child CSS pseudo-class represents the last element among a group of sibling elements.

Try it

p {
  font-weight: bold;
}

li:last-child {
  border: 2px solid orange;
}

<p>Track &amp; field champions:</p>
<ul>
  <li>Adhemar da Silva</li>
  <li>Wang Junxia</li>
  <li>Wilma Rudolph</li>
  <li>Babe Didrikson-Zaharias</li>
  <li>Betty Cuthbert</li>
  <li>Fanny Blankers-Koen</li>
  <li>Florence Griffith-Joyner</li>
  <li>Irena Szewinska</li>
  <li>Jackie Joyner-Kersee</li>
  <li>Shirley Strickland</li>
  <li>Carl Lewis</li>
  <li>Emil Zatopek</li>
  <li>Haile Gebrselassie</li>
  <li>Jesse Owens</li>
  <li>Jim Thorpe</li>
  <li>Paavo Nurmi</li>
  <li>Sergei Bubka</li>
  <li>Usain Bolt</li>
</ul>

Syntax

css
:last-child {
  /* ... */
}

Examples

Basic example

HTML

html
<div>
  <p>This text isn't selected.</p>
  <p>This text is selected!</p>
</div>

<div>
  <p>This text isn't selected.</p>
  <h2>This text isn't selected: it's not a `p`.</h2>
</div>

CSS

css
p:last-child {
  color: lime;
  background-color: black;
  padding: 5px;
}

Result

Styling a list

HTML

html
<ul>
  <li>Item 1</li>
  <li>Item 2</li>
  <li>
    Item 3
    <ul>
      <li>Item 3.1</li>
      <li>Item 3.2</li>
      <li>Item 3.3</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

CSS

css
ul li {
  color: blue;
}

ul li:last-child {
  border: 1px solid red;
  color: red;
}

Result

Specifications

Specification
Selectors Level 4
# the-last-child-pseudo

Browser compatibility

See also