The universal selector (*) in CSS is used as a wildcard character. It targets all elements in the HTML document, applying the specified styles universally to every element on the page.

For example:

This rule applies the margin: 0 and padding: 0 styles to every element on the page, making the universal selector function as a wildcard that selects everything.

So, the statement "The universal selector is never used as a wildcard character" is false. The universal selector is, in fact, a wildcard in CSS.