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AgelessEssence
AgelessEssence

Reputation: 6731

CSS selector by inline style attribute

Is there a CSS selector to select this element by its inline style attribute value?

<div style='display:block'>...</div>

something like

div[cssAttribute=cssValue]

Upvotes: 174

Views: 153485

Answers (4)

Alex Lemeshev
Alex Lemeshev

Reputation: 19

I just checked in the project and the only thing I could find that worked is the exact class description: [style="display: block;"].

Upvotes: -1

Eugene Ihnatsyeu
Eugene Ihnatsyeu

Reputation: 1595

Always look how the attribute is written in HTML (you can check it in the Elements tab in the browser). You have to use the exact same value. In my case: style="left: 100%;". And not style="left:100%" or anything like that.

Upvotes: 4

BoltClock
BoltClock

Reputation: 724074

The inline style attribute is no different to any other HTML attribute and can be matched with a substring attribute selector:

div[style*="display:block"]

It is for this very reason however that it's extremely fragile. As attribute selectors don't support regular expressions, you can only perform exact substring matches of the attribute value. For instance, if you have a space somewhere in the attribute value, like this:

<div style='display: block'>...</div>

It won't match until you change your selector to accommodate the space. And then it will stop matching values that don't contain the space, unless you include all the permutations, ad nauseam. But if you're working with a document in which the inline style declarations themselves are unlikely to change at all, you should be fine.

Note also that this is not at all selecting elements by their actual specified, computed or used values as reflected in the DOM. That is not possible with CSS selectors.

Upvotes: 306

Bertrand
Bertrand

Reputation: 119

Including ";" works better for me.

div[style*="display:block;"]

Upvotes: 11

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