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CSS Attribute Selectors

Overview

CSS attribute selectors are used to select and style HTML elements with a specific attribute or attribute value, or both.

Attribute selectors are enclosed in square brackets

[]. CSS has the following attribute selectors: [attribute] - Select elements with the specified attribute [attribute="value"] - Select elements with a specific attribute and an exact value [attribute~="value"] - Select elements with an attribute value containing a specific word [attribute|="value"] - Select elements with the specific attribute, whose value can be exactly the value, or start with the value followed by a hyphen (-) [attribute^="value"] - Select elements whose attribute value starts with a specific value [attribute$="value"] - Select elements whose attribute value ends with a specific value [attribute*="value"] - Select elements whose attribute value contains a specific value

Tip:

Formula

The attribute selectors are case - sensitive by default.
To perform a case - insensitive match, add an i

before the closing bracket. Example: [attribute="value" i]. CSS [attribute] Selector

The

[attribute] selector is used to select elements with the specified attribute.

Formula

The following example selects all < a > elements with a target attribute:
Example a[target] {
background-color: yellow;
}
CSS [attribute="value"] Selector

The

[attribute="value"] selector is used to select elements with a specific attribute with an exact value.

Formula

The following example selects all < a > elements with a target ="_blank" attribute:
Example a[target="_blank"] {
background-color: yellow;
}
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":

Example

[title~="flower"] {
border: 5px solid yellow;
}
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:

Formula

The value has to be a whole word, either alone, like class ="top", or followed by a hyphen ( - ), like class ="top - text".

Example

[class|="top"] {
background: yellow;
}

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