Grouping and attribute selectors in CSS

To achieve your goals as  a web designer, there are many possibilities and ways that each of them can help you in this field which you can search for them on our site. Still, in general, one of the ways that you can  increase the positive user experience of the users  who visit your site by mastering it is using CSS.

With its help, you can implement the commands you want just by entering different codes, which make it easier for the user to use your site, so it may cause users to recommend it to your friends after gaining a positive experience from using your site, which help you  increase your site ranking in the search results page. As a result, it can have a significant impact on the success of your website and your business.

One of the things you can do with this language is to specify the link status by entering different codes and also specifying each link as well as the differences between different kinds of links, so you can cause the user to use the site with its facilities easily, in the following, we are going to look at the ways to create different groups, as well as the ways to select elements in CSS, but before that, we need to give you a brief explanation of CSS.

What is CSS?

CSS stands for  Cascading Style Sheets, this language was created to shape and  make a website as well  as its internal components, and it is one of the main tools for web designers, which is being used a lot along with HTML JavaScript, etc.

CSS Grouping:

The important thing in coding is that the code should be written cleanly. Suppose you have to write a lot of codes. In that case, you may end up making a mistake in writing them, so you can put different elements that you consider the same properties for them in a group and then apply some changes such as color, size, etc., to them, for example, suppose you want to select 20-pixel fonts and a blue color for three titles, if you do not put them in a group, you will have to write the code as follows.

As you can see, in this case, you have to do a lot of coding to apply the same feature to separate elements that you may even get errors in. Instead of that, you can shorten the code by grouping it. To do this, you need to write the three elements that you want to apply the changes to and separate them with a comma, then write the desired font and color or any other feature only once for that group.

As you can see, if you choose to put the elements in a group, you can avoid taking up a lot of space by writing useless codes. As a result, you can provide clean coding. We also need to mention that after the last element you have selected, you should not put a comma because, in this case, the code will not be applied. In general, three different types of selectors can be grouped, which are mentioned the following:

- Element selector:

Uses element names to select the elements.

- Id selector:

Select elements by looking at the id attribute of an HTML element.

- Class selector:

Uses the class attribute to select elements.

CSS Attribute Selectors:

Style HTML elements with specific attributes can be done in the following ways:

[attribute]:

In this type, elements are selected with a specified attribute. For instance, suppose you want to target an attribute for the element, which is a red background color, so by typing the code below, all items with a target will get a red background.

[attribute = "value"]:

It selects elements with a specified attribute and value.

Note the following example where all

target = "_ blank" attributes are changed, and red background is added.

[attribute ~ = "value"]:

It selects elements with an attribute value containing a specified word. For example, suppose you want to apply a special attribute to all cases which contain the word "flower" to do so, you must do the following.

[attribute|="value"]:

It selects elements with the specified attribute starting with the specified value. The value has to be a whole word, either alone, like class = "top," or followed by a hyphen (-), like class = "top-text"!

[attribute^="value"]:

It selects elements whose attribute value begins with a specified value. The following example selects all elements with a class attribute value that begins with "top":

[attribute$="value"]:

It selects elements whose attribute value ends with a specified value, and the following example selects all elements with a class attribute value that ends with "text":

[attribute *= "value"]:

It selects elements whose attribute value contains a specified value. In the following example, all the items that contain "te" are changed.

Last word:

CSS can provide various features for users, which in this article two of them are mentioned, so that you can do the coding with more mastery, one of which was grouping, as we have mentioned in this article, with the help of which you can do clean and accurate coding, also by grouping the elements that you want to make changes to them, you can make it easier to read and maintain different codes, so you have to put different elements in a group, whenever you need, we have also reviewed  CSS Attribute Selectors, and we have given you different types of which with examples so that you can  make your site beautiful and attractive  with more awareness, we hope that the content can be useful for you.