CSS [attribute|=value] Selector
Example
Select and style elements with a lang attribute value of "en" or "en-":
  
    [lang|="en"]
 { 
     
 background-color: yellow;
 }
  
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Definition and Usage
The CSS [attribute|=value] selector selects elements with the specified attribute with the 
exact specified value, or the exact specified value followed by a hyphen (-) .
Note: The value has to be a whole word, either alone, like lang="en", or followed by a hyphen( - ), like lang="en-us".
| Version: | CSS2 | 
|---|
Browser Support
The numbers in the table specifies the first browser version that fully supports the selector.
| Selector | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [attribute|=value] | 4.0 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 9.6 | 
CSS Syntax
More Examples
Example
Select and style elements with a class attribute value of "top" or "top-":
  
    [class|="top"]
 { 
   background-color: yellow;
 }
  
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Related Pages
CSS tutorial: CSS Attribute Selectors