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shareyourpeace
3,244 PointsAre attribute selectors used in 2014?
Prior to learning on Treehouse, I have created some websites. I have never used 'attribute selectors' which are surrounded by [square brackets ] nor have I seen them used in other tutorials. Are they antiquated ? Honesty appreciated.
2 Answers
Ethan Lowry
Courses Plus Student 7,323 PointsNot at all, they're used frequently and can be extremely helpful sometimes. For example, if you wanted to select text field inputs only:
input[type="text"] { ... }
You can also do more advanced stuff like, say, select attributes that contain, start with or end with given values. So there's a lot of potentially cool stuff you can do with them.
There's a fairly nice article about them over on CSS-Tricks if you're interested in finding out more.
shareyourpeace
3,244 PointsThanks. I now see the value as the course continued.