I have these divs that I'm styling with .tocolor
, but I also need the unique identifier 1,2,3,4 etc. so I'm adding that it as another class tocolor-1
.
<div class="tocolor tocolor-1"> tocolor 1 </div>
<div class="tocolor tocolor-2"> tocolor 2 </div>
<div class="tocolor tocolor-3"> tocolor 3 </div>
<div class="tocolor tocolor-4"> tocolor 4 </div>
.tocolor{
background: red;
}
Is there a way to have just 1 class tocolor-*
. I tried using a wildcard *
as in this css, but it didn't work.
.tocolor-*{
background: red;
}
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css-selectors
wildcard
Yes you can do this.
*[id^='term-']{
[css here]
}
This will select all ids that start with 'term-'
.
As for the reason for not doing this, I see where it would be preferable to select this way; as for style, I wouldn't do it myself, but it's possible.
If you don't need the unique identifier for further styling of the divs and are using HTML5 you could try and go with custom Data Attributes. Read on here or try a google search for HTML5 Custom Data Attributes
An alternative solution:
div[class|='tocolor']
will match for values of the "class" attribute that begin with "tocolor-", including "tocolor-1", "tocolor-2", etc.
Beware that this won't match
<div class="foo tocolor-">
Reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#attribute-representation
[att|=val]
Represents an element with the att attribute, its value either being exactly "val" or beginning with "val" immediately followed by "-" (U+002D)
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