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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Grid Layout Creating the Grid Container

Robin Malhotra
Robin Malhotra
14,883 Points
Posted by Robin Malhotra
Robin Malhotra
14,883 Points

Weird CSS Syntax

Could someone explain the weird CSS Selectors used here:

.grid-container > [class^="grid-"]:first-child

.grid-container > [class^="grid-"]

etc?

rdaniels
rdaniels
27,258 Points
rdaniels
rdaniels
27,258 Points

the part in the square brackets are saying "pick anything in the HTML page with the class that starts with "grid-". The top one picks out any code with the class that starts with "grid-" and then applies "something" to the first-child of that class.

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

These are known as attribute selectors. They select elements based on what in a HTML attribute. In this case, it's attaching to a class attribute that starts with the text grid.

Here's the latest stuff by CSS tricks on Attribute Selectors :-) https://css-tricks.com/almanac/selectors/a/attribute/