It is possible to style HTML elements that have specific attributes or attribute values.
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Note: IE7 and IE8 support attribute selectors only if a !DOCTYPE is specified. |
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The [attribute] selector is used to select elements with a specified attribute.
The following example selects all <a> elements with a target attribute:
The [attribute=value] selector is used to select elements with a specified attribute and value.
The following example selects all <a> elements with a target="_blank" attribute:
The [attribute~=value] selector is used to select elements with an attribute value containing a specified 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".
The [attribute|=value] selector is used to select elements with the specified attribute starting with the specified value.
The following example selects all elements with a class attribute value that begins with "top":
Note: The value has to be a whole word, either alone, like class="top", or followed by a hyphen( - ), like class="top-text"!
The [attribute^=value] selector is used to select elements whose attribute value begins with a specified value.
The following example selects all elements with a class attribute value that begins with "top":
Note: The value does not have to be a whole word!
The [attribute$=value] selector is used to select elements whose attribute value ends with a specified value.
The following example selects all elements with a class attribute value that ends with "test":
Note: The value does not have to be a whole word!
The [attribute*=value] selector is used to select elements whose attribute value contains a specified value.
The following example selects all elements with a class attribute value that contains "te":
Note: The value does not have to be a whole word!
The attribute selectors can be useful for styling forms without class or ID:
Use our CSS Selector Tester to demonstrate the different selectors.
For a complete reference of all the CSS selectors, please go to our CSS Selectors Reference.
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