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CSS

Posted by Suli S
Suli S
1,475 Points

Attribute Selector

Hi

Is there a difference from perofrmance point of view if I write attribute selector for the submit button as follow:

[type="submit"]

instead of 

input[type="submit"]

?

1 Answer

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points
Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

The first one will select everything with the type = "submit" attribute. Where as the second one will only select the inputs with the type = "submit" attribute.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

Yep, be as specific as you need to be, without being too specific when picking the correct attribute selector.