Attribute selector help.

[-Lost]

Alright, it has been a *long* time since I read a CSS spec, so here is my question(s).

1. I have seen styles like this:

element#idName[id]

What does the "[id]" part do? I mean, it is already inside an element with an ID of
"idName" so why is the attribute included? Is it doing something that I am just not aware
of?

2. How could I apply a style to all Ps with an ID of fn? n being a number from 1 to
whatever.

I thought that:

p[id~="f"]

....would do it, but apparently not.

Thanks.

-Lost

[Chris Vogel]

Re: Attribute selector help.

-Lost wrote:

Alright, it has been a *long* time since I read a CSS spec, so here
is my question(s).

Then you should probably read it again. All your answers are there.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html

2. How could I apply a style to all Ps with an ID of fn? n being
a number from 1 to whatever.
>
I thought that:
>
p[id~="f"]
>
...would do it, but apparently not.

You just have to list them all out separately.

#f1,#f2,#f3,...
{
color: red;
}

Maybe you should be using classes?

[-Lost]

Re: Attribute selector help.

"Chris Vogel" <chris@chrisvog el.namewrote in message
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-Lost wrote:

>Alright, it has been a *long* time since I read a CSS spec, so here
> is my question(s).

>
Then you should probably read it again. All your answers are there.
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html

I imagine I worded that incorrectly. My point was that I did not understand it (or I
thought I might not understand it fully).

I have it sorted now.

>2. How could I apply a style to all Ps with an ID of fn? n being
>a number from 1 to whatever.
>>
>I thought that:
>>
>p[id~="f"]
>>
>...would do it, but apparently not.

>
You just have to list them all out separately.
>
#f1,#f2,#f3,...
{
color: red;
}
>
Maybe you should be using classes?

Yeah, that is what I was currently using. Was not sure if there was another method to
just point at IDs (since they were mandatory, classes were not).

Thanks all the same.

-Lost