CSS Attribute Selectors
CSS Attribute Selectors
CSS attribute selectors are used to select and style HTML elements with a specific attribute or attribute value, or both.
Example
Select all <a> elements with a target attribute:
a[target] {
background-color: yellow;
}
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Basic Attribute Selectors
Basic attribute selectors match elements that have a specific attribute or a specific attribute value.
CSS [attribute] Selector
The [attribute] selector is used to select elements with a specific
attribute.
The following example selects all <a> elements with a target attribute:
CSS [attribute="value"] Selector
The [attribute="value"] selector is used to select elements with a specific
attribute with an exact value.
The following example selects all <a> elements with a target="_blank" attribute:
CSS [attribute~="value"] Selector
The
[attribute~="value"] selector is used to select elements with an attribute
value containing a specific word.
The following example selects all elements with a title attribute that contains a space-separated list of words, one of which is "flower":
The example above will match elements with title="flower", title="summer flower", and title="flower new", but not title="my-flower" or title="flowers".
CSS [attribute|="value"] Selector
The [attribute|="value"] selector
is used to select elements with the specific attribute, whose value can be
exactly the specific value, or start with the specific value followed by a
hyphen (-).
Note: The value has to be a whole word, either alone, like class="top", or followed by a hyphen ( - ), like class="top-text".
