Selectors

Available selectors

The list of default selectors supported by CSSelly:

• * 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#myid an E element with ID equal to “myid”.

• 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

The list of additional pseudo-classes and pseudo-functions supported by CSSelly:

• :first

• :last

• :button

• :checkbox

• :file

• :header

• :image

• :input

• :parent

• :password

• :radio

• :reset

• :selected

• :checked

• :submit

• :text

• :even

• :odd

• :eq(n)

• :gt(n)

• :lt(n)

• :contains(text)

Escaping

CSSelly supports escaping characters using the backslash, e.g.: nspace\:name refers to the tag name nspace:name (that uses namespaces) and not for pseudo-class name.