Attribute selectors
The CSS attribute selector matches elements based on the presence or value of a given attribute.
/* <a> elements with a title attribute */ a[title] { color: purple; } /* <a> elements with an href matching "https://example.org" */ a[href="https://example.org"] { color: green; } /* <a> elements with an href containing "example" */ a[href*="example"] { font-size: 2em; } /* <a> elements with an href ending ".org" */ a[href$=".org"] { font-style: italic; } /* <a> elements whose class attribute contains the word "logo" */ a[class~="logo"] { padding: 2px; }
Syntax
[attr]
-
Represents elements with an attribute name of attr.
[attr=value]
-
Represents elements with an attribute name of attr whose value is exactly value.
[attr~=value]
-
Represents elements with an attribute name of attr whose value is a whitespace-separated list of words, one of which is exactly value.
[attr|=value]
-
Represents elements with an attribute name of attr whose value can be exactly value or can begin with value immediately followed by a hyphen,
-
(U+002D). It is often used for language subcode matches. [attr^=value]
-
Represents elements with an attribute name of attr whose value is prefixed (preceded) by value.
[attr$=value]
-
Represents elements with an attribute name of attr whose value is suffixed (followed) by value.
[attr*=value]
-
Represents elements with an attribute name of attr whose value contains at least one occurrence of value within the string.
[attr operator value i]
-
Adding an
i
(orI
) before the closing bracket causes the value to be compared case-insensitively (for characters within the ASCII range). -
[attr operator value s]
-
Adding an
s
(orS
) before the closing bracket causes the value to be compared case-sensitively (for characters within the ASCII range).
Examples
Links
CSS
a { color: blue; } /* Internal links, beginning with "#" */ a[href^="#"] { background-color: gold; } /* Links with "example" anywhere in the URL */ a[href*="example"] { background-color: silver; } /* Links with "insensitive" anywhere in the URL, regardless of capitalization */ a[href*="insensitive" i] { color: cyan; } /* Links with "cAsE" anywhere in the URL, with matching capitalization */ a[href*="cAsE" s] { color: pink; } /* Links that end in ".org" */ a[href$=".org"] { color: red; } /* Links that start with "https" and end in ".org" */ a[href^="https"][href$=".org"] { color: green; }
HTML
<ul> <li><a href="#internal">Internal link</a></li> <li><a href="http://example.com">Example link</a></li> <li><a href="#InSensitive">Insensitive internal link</a></li> <li><a href="http://example.org">Example org link</a></li> <li><a href="https://example.org">Example https org link</a></li> </ul>
Result
Languages
CSS
/* All divs with a `lang` attribute are bold. */ div[lang] { font-weight: bold; } /* All divs without a `lang` attribute are italicized. */ div:not([lang]) { font-style: italic; } /* All divs in US English are blue. */ div[lang~="en-us"] { color: blue; } /* All divs in Portuguese are green. */ div[lang="pt"] { color: green; } /* All divs in Chinese are red, whether simplified (zh-CN) or traditional (zh-TW). */ div[lang|="zh"] { color: red; } /* All divs with a Traditional Chinese `data-lang` are purple. */ /* Note: You could also use hyphenated attributes without double quotes */ div[data-lang="zh-TW"] { color: purple; }
HTML
<div lang="en-us en-gb en-au en-nz">Hello World!</div> <div lang="pt">Olá Mundo!</div> <div lang="zh-CN">世界您好!</div> <div lang="zh-TW">世界您好!</div> <div data-lang="zh-TW">世界您好!</div>
Result
HTML ordered lists
The HTML specification requires the type
attribute to be matched case-insensitively due to it primarily being used in the <input>
element, trying to use attribute selectors to with the type
attribute of an ordered list doesn't work without the case-sensitive modifier.
CSS
/* List types require the case sensitive flag due to a quirk in how HTML treats the type attribute. */ ol[type="a"] { list-style-type: lower-alpha; background: red; } ol[type="a" s] { list-style-type: lower-alpha; background: lime; } ol[type="A" s] { list-style-type: upper-alpha; background: lime; }
HTML
<ol type="A"> <li>Example list</li> </ol>
Result
Specifications
Specification |
---|
Selectors Level 4 (Selectors 4) # attribute-selectors |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
Attribute_selectors |
1 |
12 |
1 |
7 |
9 |
3 |
≤37 |
18 |
4 |
14 |
1 |
1.0 |
case_insensitive_modifier |
49 |
79 |
47 |
No |
36 |
9 |
49 |
49 |
47 |
36 |
9 |
5.0 |
case_sensitive_modifier |
No
See bug 1041095.
|
No
See bug 1041095.
|
66 |
No |
No
See bug 1041095.
|
No |
No
See bug 1041095.
|
No
See bug 1041095.
|
66 |
No
See bug 1041095.
|
No |
No
See bug 1041095.
|
See also
attr()
- Selecting a single element:
Document.querySelector()
,DocumentFragment.querySelector()
, orElement.querySelector()
- Selecting all matching elements:
Document.querySelectorAll()
,DocumentFragment.querySelectorAll()
, orElement.querySelectorAll()
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