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Zachary Reed
9,214 Pointsattribute selectors? I was having trouble with the Practice CSS Selectors workshop because I haven't heard of these.
I googled what they were after the fact, but I don't think there was a video about attribute selectors in this course so I was confused as to how to do some of the practice problems.
Zachary Reed
9,214 PointsKevin Bullis so my understanding is that if you have two or more of the same elements but they all have different attributes, and you want to make a selector out of only one of those specific elements, then using an attribute selector helps you specify the element and attribute you want to style?
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Steven Parker
229,732 PointsAttribute selectors are covered in detail in several of the videos in the CSS Selectors course. In fact, after the introductory overview, the very next one is titled Attribute Selectors.
Zachary Reed
9,214 PointsThank you, I'm on the Web Development track, working through the basic CSS selector videos, and I've only gotten through the Basic CSS Selectors course and Atrribute Selectors weren't on there. Kinda weird that they are included in the practice after the basic CSS selector videos but hey, I learned something more advanced so that's a good thing! :D
Kevin Bullis
13,770 PointsKevin Bullis
13,770 PointsSounds like you figured out what they were. Just in case, here's a good resource: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors
These selectors are incredibly useful when you're working with someone else's code and don't have the ability to add classes or ids (without using JavaScript).