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July 6, 2021 07:52 pm GMT

CSS3 selectors Cheat Sheet

CSS Selectors

CSS selectors are utilized to select the content you need to style. In CSS Rule Set, Selectors are the part. CSS selectors select HTML elements as per their id, class, type, attribute, etc.

CSS selectors are divided into five categories:

Simple/Basic selectors (select elements based on name, id, class)
Combinator selectors (select elements based on a specific relationship between them)
Pseudo-classes selectors (select elements based on a certain state)
Pseudo-elements selectors (select and style a part of an element)
Attribute selectors (select elements based on an attribute or attribute value)

Simple Selectors

Selector	Example	Example description
#id	#firstname	Selects the element with id="firstname"
.class	.intro	Selects all elements with class="intro"
element.class	p.intro	Selects only elements with class="intro"
*	*	Selects all elements
element	p	Selects all elements
element,element,..	div, p	Selects all elements and all elements

Basic Selectors

Selector	Description	Example
element	Typeselector. Matches an element.	p { color: red }
/* matches paragraphs */
.class	Class selector. Matches the value of anclassattribute.	.warning { color: red }
/* matches elements containing class="warning" */
#id	IDselector. Matches the value of anidattribute.	#warning { color: red }
/* matches elements containing id="warning" */
*	Universalselector. Matches everything.	* { color: red }
/* matches everything */

Attribute selectors

Selector	Description	Example
[attribute]	Matches elements containing a given attribute.	a[href] { color: red }
/* matches a elements with an href attribute */
[attribute="x"]	Matches elements containing a given attribute with a given value.	a[href="https://dev.to/sitemap/"] { color: red }
/* matches a elements with the attribute and value href="https://dev.to/sitemap/" */
[attribute~="x"]	Matches elements containing a given attribute with a value that contains a sub-value within a space-separated list.	abbr[title~="Style"] { color: red }
/* matches abbr elements with a title that contains 'Style' (such as in title="Cascading Style Sheets") */
[attribute	="x"]	Matches elements containing a given attribute with a value that contains a sub-value within a hyphen-separated list.
/* matches html elements with a lang attribute that contains 'en' (such as in lang="en-gb") */
[attribute^="x"]	Matches elements containing a given attribute with a value that starts with something.	a[href^="http://"] { color: red }
/* matches a elements with an href attribute, the value of which begins with 'http://' */
[attribute$="x"]	Matches elements containing a given attribute with a value that ends with something.	a[href$=".com"] { color: red }
/* matches a elements with an href attribute, the value of which ends with '.com' */
[attribute*="x"]	Matches elements containing a given attribute with a value that contains something.	a[href*="htmldog"] { color: red }
/* matches a elements with an href attribute, the value of which contains 'htmldog' */

Pseudo-classes Selectors

Selector	Description	Example
:link	Matches alink that has not been visited.	a:link { color: blue }
:visited	Matches alink that has been visited.	a:visited { color: purple }
:active	Matches an element that is beingactivated, such as a link being clicked on.	a:active { color: red }
:hover	Matches an element whose box is beinghovered overby a cursor.	a:hover { text-decoration: none }
:focus	Matches an element that hasfocus, such as one that has been tabbed to.	a:focus { border: 1px solid yellow }
:target	Matches an element that has beenlinked to (via<a href="#x",for example).	h2:target { color: red }
/* matches a second-level heading that has been linked to */
:lang()	Matches an element of a givenlanguage.	p:lang(fr) { color: red }
/* matches paragraphs that are declared, or otherwise considered, as French */
:first-child	Matches thefirst childof an element.	p:first-child { color: red }
/* matches the first child, if it is a paragraph, of an element */
:last-child	Matches thelast childof an element.	div p:last-child { color: blue }
/* matches the last child, if it is a paragraph, of an element */
:first-of-type	Matches thefirst sibling of its typein an element.	li:first-of-type { color: red }
/* matches the first instance of a list item inside an element */
:last-of-type	Matches thelast sibling of its typein an element.	li:last-of-type { color: blue }
/* matches the last instance of a list item inside an element */
:nth-child()	Matches an element that is theordinal number childof its parent.	p:nth-child(3) { color: red }
/* matches the third child, if it is a paragrpah, of an element */
:nth-last-child()	Matches an element that is theordinal number child, in reverse order, of its parent.	p:nth-last-child(2) { color: blue }
/* matches the next-to-last child, if it is a paragraph, of an element */
:nth-of-type()	Matches an element that is theordinal number sibling of its type.	li:nth-of-type(5) { color: red }
/* matches the fifth instance of a list item inside an element */
:nth-last-of-type()	Matches an element that is the ordinal number sibling, in reverse order, of its type.	li:nth-of-type(5) { color: red }
/* matches the next-to-last instance of a list item inside an element */
:only-child	Matches an element if it is theonly childof its parent.	article p:only-child { color: red }
/* matches a paragraph if it is the only child of an article element */
:only-of-type	Matches an element if it is theonly sibling of its type.	article aside:only-of-type { color: blue }
/* matches an aside element if it is the only aside element in an article element */
:empty	Matches an element withno children, or content.	td:empty { border-color: red }
/* matches table data cells with nothing in 'em */
:root	Matches theroot elementof a document. This will be thehtmlelement in HTML.	:root { background: yellow }
:enabled	Matchesform control elements that are not disabled.	input:enabled { border-color: lime }
/* matches input elements that are not disabled */
:disabled	Matchesform control elements that are disabled.	input:enabled { border-color: red }
/* matches input elements that are disabled */
:checked	Matches a radio or checkbox typeinput element that is checked.	input:checked { outline: 3px solid yellow }
/* matches checked input elements */
:not()	Negotiationpseudo-class. Matches an element that does not match a selector.	p:not(:first-child) { color: orange }
/* matches paragraphs that are not first children */

Pseudo-elements Selectors

Selector	Description	Example
::first-line	Matches thefirst textual linein an element.	p::first-line { font-weight: bold }
/* matches the first line in a paragraph */
::first-letter	Matches thefirst letterin an element.	p::first-letter { font-size: 2em }
/* matches the first letter in a paragraph */
::before	Used with thecontentproperty to generate contentbeforethe initial content of an element.	h1::before { content: "*" }
/* places an asterisk at the start of a top-level heading */
::after	Used with thecontentproperty to generate contentafterthe initial content of an element.	h1::after { content: "+" }
/* places a plus-sign at the end of a top-level heading */
Selector	Description	Example
selector selector	Descendantcombinator. Matches elements that are descendants of another element.	aside p { color: red }
/* matches paragraphs inside elements containing class="warning" */
selector > selector	Childcombinator. Matches elements that are children of another element.	.warning > p { color: red }
/* matches paragraphs that are children of elements containing class="warning" */
selector + selector	Adjacent siblingcombinator. Matches elements that immediately follow another element.	h1 + * { color: red }
/* matches the first element to follow a top-level heading */
selector ~ selector	General siblingcombinator. Matches elements that follow another element.	h2 ~ p { color: red }
/* matches every paragraph that follows a second-level heading */

CSS Group Selector

The grouping selector in CSS picks all the HTML elements with the same style definitions.

h1 {   text-align: center;   color: red; } h2 {   text-align: center;   color: red; } p {   text-align: center;   color: red; }

To minimize the code, just apply the CSS grouping selectors. Simply group the selectors by separating each selector with a comma. Let's see the following code after CSS Grouping Selectors:

h1, h2, p {   text-align: center;   color: red; }

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