Selecting Elements Based on Attributes

You can also apply formatting to those elements that have a given attribute or attribute value.

Figure 9.35. In this code, only the two inner div elements have class attributes.

To select elements to format based on their attributes:

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If desired, type element, where element is the selector for the element whose attributes are in question.
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Type [attribute, where attribute is the name of the attribute that an element must have to be selected.
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If desired, type ="value" if you want to specify the value that the attribute must have for its element to be selected. Or, if desired, type ~="value", to ...

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