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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Basic Attribute Selectors

Posted by nathan marq
nathan marq
1,939 Points

How can you tell when to use attribute selectors ???

To all the JEDI coders out there ... what would be a situation that would cause you to used class attribute selectors and why ???

3 Answers

Joe Bruno
Joe Bruno
35,909 Points
Joe Bruno
Joe Bruno
35,909 Points

All of those selectors are essentially local - direct descendent, sibling, adjacent. Sometimes you need something more universal in scope such as input[type=email] even if this is to replace existing styling on that element - happens a lot in WordPress plugins.

nathan marq
nathan marq
1,939 Points

sweet thanks ... that helped clear things up a bit ... but ... is that the lazy mans way of selecting something ??? I am not trying to be offensive I really am wanting to understand WHY that approach would be better than using one of these >, +, ~