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**snazzy** · 10:04 PM

I know css a little, but today I come across something called an attribute selector.. I was just wondering what was meant by this ?

thank you

**JeremyMiller** · 05-23-2009, 10:12 PM

Check out http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.h...bute-selectors . I believe that not all browsers currently support this feature of CSS 2.1.

**snazzy** · 05-23-2009, 10:30 PM

ahh cool thank you, So I am guessing its going to be supported at a later date then, or would someone know if its just going to be dropped ?.. I think the question is, how old is it ?

**JeremyMiller** · 05-23-2009, 10:35 PM

Oh, it won't be dropped. Just a matter of how long until support is available. LadyNRed most likely knows the current support level by heart, but a quick Google search would probably also tell you (or a quick test).

**snazzy** · 05-23-2009, 10:38 PM

thanks again.. I will check back to see if LadyNRed replied, in the mean time I will have a hunt, cheers

**JeremyMiller** · 10:59 PM

Looks like I was wrong: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html .

I also wrote this:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <style>
      div[id=abc] {
        background:yellow;
      }
      div[custom_attr=def] {
        font-size:200%;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="abc" custom_attr="def">My Text</div>
  </body>
</html>

and tested it in IE 8, FF 3, Opera 9, and Safari 3 which all worked -- I was amazed that even the custom attribute worked!

EDIT: Chrome 2 worked as well.