Attribute Selectors

You can also apply styles to HTML elements with particular attributes. The style rule below will match all input elements that has a type attribute with a value of text:

input[type=“text”]{
color: #000000;
}

The advantage to this method is that the <input type=“submit” /> element is unaffected, and the color is applied only to the desired text fields.

There are following rules applied to attribute selector.

p[lang] - Selects all paragraph elements with a lang attribute.
p[lang=“fr”] - Selects all paragraph elements whose lang attribute has a value of exactly “fr”.
p[lang =“fr”] - Selects all paragraph elements whose lang attribute contains the word “fr”.
p[lang=“en”] - Selects all paragraph elements whose lang attribute contains values that are exactly “en”, or begin with “en-”.