Pattern |
Meaning |
* |
any element |
E |
an element of type E |
E[foo] |
an E element with a "foo" attribute |
E[foo="bar"] |
an E element whose "foo" attribute value is exactly equal to "bar" |
E[foo~="bar"] |
an E element whose "foo" attribute value is a list of whitespace-separated values, one of which is exactly equal to "bar" |
E[foo^="bar"] |
an E element whose "foo" attribute value begins exactly with the string "bar" |
E[foo$="bar"] |
an E element whose "foo" attribute value ends exactly with the string "bar" |
E[foo*="bar"] |
an E element whose "foo" attribute value contains the substring "bar" |
E[foo|="en"] |
an E element whose "foo" attribute has a hyphen-separated list of values beginning (from the left) with "en" |
E:root |
an E element, root of the document |
E:nth-child(n) |
an E element, the n-th child of its parent |
E:nth-last-child(n) |
an E element, the n-th child of its parent, counting from the last one |
E:nth-of-type(n) |
an E element, the n-th sibling of its type |
E:nth-last-of-type(n) |
an E element, the n-th sibling of its type, counting from the last one |
E:first-child |
an E element, first child of its parent |
E:last-child |
an E element, last child of its parent |
E:first-of-type |
an E element, first sibling of its type |
E:last-of-type |
an E element, last sibling of its type |
E:only-child |
an E element, only child of its parent |
E:only-of-type |
an E element, only sibling of its type |
E:empty |
an E element that has no children (including text nodes) |
E:link E:visited |
an E element being the source anchor of a hyperlink of which the target is not yet visited (:link) or already visited (:visited) |
E:active E:hover E:focus |
an E element during certain user actions |
E:target |
an E element being the target of the referring URI |
E:lang(fr) |
an element of type E in language "fr" (the document language specifies how language is determined) |
E:enabled E:disabled |
a user interface element E which is enabled or disabled |
E:checked |
a user interface element E which is checked (for instance a radio-button or checkbox) |
E::first-line |
the first formatted line of an E element |
E::first-letter |
the first formatted letter of an E element |
E::before |
generated content before an E element |
E::after |
generated content after an E element |
E.warning |
an E element whose class is "warning" (the document language specifies how class is determined). |
E#myid |
an E element with ID equal to "myid". |
E:not(s) |
an E element that does not match simple selector s |
E F |
an F element descendant of an E element |
E > F |
an F element child of an E element |
E + F |
an F element immediately preceded by an E element |
E ~ F |
an F element preceded by an E element |