Re: E[foo*="bar"] selector from fantasai on 2003-08-31 (www-style@w3.org from August 2003)

From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:31:23 -0400
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <3F52854B.2080000@escape.com>

Matt wrote:
> What if I have an element like this:
> <a href="?alpha=200&amp;beta=300">blah</a>
> 
> Which of these selectors should match it?
> 
> a[href*="alpha=200&amp;beta=300"]
> a[href*="alpha=200&beta=300"]
> 
> i.e. Does the CSS selector match the HTML entity, or its replaced character?

The replaced character. Entity replacement is done during
parsing, and CSS doesn't care what happens at that stage
of document processing.

~fantasai

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