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Now that we know how to target an element's attribute, let's learn the different ways we can select form buttons and links with attribute selectors.
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Using attribute selectors with form elements
This target an input element with a type value of email:
input[type="email"] {
background: yellow;
}
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So now we're starting to see the pattern
these selectors use to
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match certain attributes.
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Now let's take a look at a couple more.
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This time, we'll want to target our form
buttons, and define a new mouse cursor.
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So we'll want to display the pointer
cursor, when a user
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hovers over any of these buttons, because
currently it's not doing that.
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So usually with forms there are three
button attributes we can work with.
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So let's go ahead and target all three.
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So we're gonna create, a new selector
group that targets them.
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So first, we're going to say input
followed by a set of square brackets.
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Then we're gonna target an input element
with a type attribute
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with the value of button, and we're going
to add a comma, and right below that,
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we're also going to target input elements
with a type attribute value of reset.
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And, finally, we're going to target input
elements that have a type value of submit.
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We're going to say, type equals submit.
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Then inside the rule we're going to add a
cursor property and
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set the value to pointer.
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All right, so now when we save our style
sheet and refresh our form.
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We can see how all button display that
pointer cursor when we mouse over them.
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Cool.
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Finally sometimes we may have a lot of
similar elements on the page,
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without class or id names.
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But some of them may have special
attributes assigned to them.
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So links for example.
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So say we need to target all links that
open in a new window or tab.
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Well, that's usually done with a target
attribute.
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So if we go back to our index.html file
and take a look at our link element.
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We can see a, that it has a target
attribute.
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And the values underscore blank.
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So let's create a new attribute selector
that targets an anchor elements,
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target attribute with that underscore
blank value.
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So right below the rule we just wrote,
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let's first target anchor elements
followed by a set of square brackets.
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Then we're going to match anchor elements
that have a target attribute and
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the value _blank.
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And for those, we're going to give it a
new color.
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So let's give it a color property.
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And set the color value to pound 39add1.
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And right below that,
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we're going to remove the text decoration
by setting the text decoration to none.
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And finally, let's give it a bottom
border.
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So let's say border dash bottom.
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And we'll set the border width to one
pixel, and the border style to dotted.
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All right, so, let's save our
selectors.css file,
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go back to the preview, and hit Refresh,
and
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when we do that, we can see how the
password link here in the login form.
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Takes on those new style,
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since it has that target equals _blank
attribute and value.
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So later we'll learn more powerful
attribute selectors,
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that let us target small pieces or
substrings of an attribute's value.
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