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JavaScript CSS Selectors Quickstart The Role of Selectors in JavaScript Selectors in JavaScript Review

Christopher Schillinger
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What is the answer? And why

Use an attribute selector to assign an element with a data attribute

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Here's some hints:

  • attribute selectors have an attribute name enclosed in square brackets
  • for the purpose of selectors, there's nothing special about "data-*" attributes and the whole name is used