| * |
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Applies to any element, Universal selector. |
| E |
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Applies to an element of type E (E is a the name of the node). |
| .className |
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Applies to any element whose class attribute value is equal to className. |
| #myID |
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Applies to any element whose ID attribute value is equal to myID. |
| E.className |
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Applies to an element of type E whose class attribute value is equal to className. |
| E#myID |
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Applies to an element of type E whose ID attribute value is equal to myID. |
| E[attr] |
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Applies to an element of type E with an "attr" attribute. |
| E[attr="val"] |
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Applies to an element of type E with an "attr" attribute equal to "val". |
| E[attr*="val"] |
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Applies to an element of type E with an "attr" attribute and whose value contains at least one occurance of string "val". |
| E[attr~="val"] |
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Applies to an element of type E whose "attr" attribute value is a list of space-separated values, and at least one is equal to "val". |
| E[attr|="val"] |
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Applies to an element of type E whose "attr" attribute value is a list of hyphen-separated values, and at least one is equal to "val". |
| E[attr^="val"] |
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Applies to an element of type E with an "attr" attribute and whose value begins exactly with "val". |
| E[attr$="val"] |
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Applies to an element of type E with an "attr" attribute and whose value ends exactly with "val". |
| E F |
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Applies to an F element which is a descendant of an E element. |
| E > F |
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Applies to an F element which is a direct child of an E element. |
| E + F |
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Applies to an F element which is immediately preceded by an E element. |
| E ~ F |
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Applies to an F element which is a preceded by an E element. |
| Pseudo elements |
| ::after |
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Can be used to specify generated content after an element's contents. |
| ::before |
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Can be used to specify generated content before an element's contents. |
| ::first-letter |
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Applies to the first letter of an element. |
| ::first-line |
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Applies to the first line of an element. |
| ::selection |
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Applies to the content that is currently selected or highlighted text by the user. |
| Structural pseudo-classes |
| :empty |
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Applies to elements that do not have any content. |
| :first-child |
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Applies to any element that is the first child of its parent. |
| :first-of-type |
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Applies to any element that is the first child of its type in its parent. |
| :last-child |
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Applies to any element that is the last child of its parent. |
| :last-of-type |
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Applies to any element that is the last child of its type in its parent. |
| :nth-child () |
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Applies to any element that is the n-th child of its parent. |
| :nth-last-child () |
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Applies to any element that is the n-th child of its parent, counting from the last one. |
| :nth-of-type () |
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Applies to any element that is the n-th sibling of its type. |
| :nth-last-of-type () |
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Applies to any element that is the n-th sibling of its type, counting from the last one. |
| :only-child |
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Applies to any element that is the only child of its parent. |
| :only-of-type |
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Applies to any element that is the only sibling of its type. |
| :root |
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Applies to the top-level element of a document. |
| Link pseudo-classes |
| :link |
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Applies to unvisited links (A tag with specified href attribute). |
| :visited |
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Applies to visited links ('A' tag with specified 'href' attribute, that has been visited by the user before). |
| :target |
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Applies to the element which is the target of the current document's URI. |
| Dynamic pseudo-classes |
| :active |
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Applies to the currently engaged or active element within the document. |
| :focus |
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Applies to the currently focused element. |
| :hover |
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Applies to the element whereon the mouse pointer is currently over. |
| State pseudo-classes |
| :enabled |
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Applies to standard user interface elements that are enabled to use by the user. |
| :disabled |
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Applies to standard user interface elements that are disabled. |
| :checked |
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Applies to element which is in checked state. |
| :indeterminate |
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Applies to element which is in indeterminate state. |
| :default |
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Applies to default user interface elements. |
| Language pseudo-class |
| :lang |
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Applies to elements with the specified language setting. |
| Negation pseudo-class |
| :not() |
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Used to negate a normal selector. |
