Wondering about some real-world applications for attribute selectors? In this video, see some examples of how CSS attribute selectors will make your next project's maintenance easier.
- [Instructor] If you've been in web design … and development for any period of time, … you've wound up working in a system like WordPress, … Drupal, Squarespace, or something similar, … your client is responsible for putting in links to PDFs … or links that go off-site. … Maybe you have asked them to designate those links … that go to a PDF via an icon … or off-site via some type of text after the link. … Clients never remember to do this, … and it always gets out of date. … How cool would it be to set up some code … that does this automatically, … so your client will never have to worry about it again? … So let's go ahead and take a look at this example, … where I have two links here that are both going off-site, … and I'm going to show you two tricks … that you can use to designate that these links go off-site, … two different ways of programming this. … So one methodology that you could use would be this. … I am going to select all of my a tags … and those are going to have an href where somewhere …
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Released
5/2/2019- Targeting classes and IDs
- Working with group selectors
- Targeting element attributes
- Targeting links with pseudo-class selectors
- Targeting child elements and empty elements
- Targeting parent, child, and sibling elements
- Best practices for CSS
- The impact of CSS selectors on performance
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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The power of selectors1m 8s
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1. Review of Basic CSS
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CSS terminology2m 58s
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Groups of selectors1m 52s
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Compound selectors3m 19s
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2. Combinator Selectors
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Descendant selectors3m 36s
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Parent-child selectors3m 51s
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3. Attribute Selectors
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Simple attribute selectors2m 47s
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4. Pseudo-Classes, Pseudo-Elements, and the Universal Selector
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Understanding :not2m 53s
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:root and :empty4m 27s
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5. Choosing Selectors
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Conclusion
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