How to select label for=”XYZ” in CSS?

The selector would be label[for=email], so in CSS: …or in JavaScript using the DOM: …or in JavaScript using jQuery: It’s an attribute selector. Note that some browsers (versions of IE < 8, for instance) may not support attribute selectors, but more recent ones do. To support older browsers like IE6 and IE7, you’d have to use a … Read more

CSS selector for first element with class

This is one of the most well-known examples of authors misunderstanding how :first-child works. Introduced in CSS2, the :first-child pseudo-class represents the very first child of its parent. That’s it. There’s a very common misconception that it picks up whichever child element is the first to match the conditions specified by the rest of the … Read more

Can I apply a CSS style to an element name?

You can use the attribute selector,  Run code snippetExpand snippet Be aware that it isn’t supported in IE6. Update: In 2016 you can pretty much use them as you want, since IE6 is dead. http://quirksmode.org/css/selectors/ http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/attributeselector

Specify multiple attribute selectors in CSS

Simple input[name=Sex][value=M] would do pretty nice. And it’s actually well-described in the standard doc: Multiple attribute selectors can be used to refer to several attributes of an element, or even several times to the same attribute. Here, the selector matches all SPAN elements whose “hello” attribute has exactly the value “Cleveland” and whose “goodbye” attribute has exactly the … Read more

Is there a “previous sibling” selector?

No, there is no “previous sibling” selector. On a related note, ~ is for general successor sibling (meaning the element comes after this one, but not necessarily immediately after) and is a CSS3 selector. + is for next sibling and is CSS2.1. See Adjacent sibling combinator from Selectors Level 3 and 5.7 Adjacent sibling selectors … Read more

What does the “~” (tilde/squiggle/twiddle) CSS selector mean?

The ~ selector is in fact the General sibling combinator (renamed to Subsequent-sibling combinator in selectors Level 4): The general sibling combinator is made of the “tilde” (U+007E, ~) character that separates two sequences of simple selectors. The elements represented by the two sequences share the same parent in the document tree and the element represented by the first sequence … Read more

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