| * | any element
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| E | an element of type E |
| E F | an F element descendant of an E element |
| E > F | an F element child of an E element |
| E + F | an F element immediately preceded by an E element |
| E ~ F | an F element preceded by an E element |
| #Id | Match element with id="Id" |
| E#myid | an E element with ID equal to "myid". |
| E[foo] | an E element with a "foo" attribute |
| E[foo="bar"] | an E element whose "foo" attribute value is exactly equal to "bar" |
| E[foo~="bar"] | an E element whose "foo" attribute value is a list of space-separated values, one of which is exactly equal to "bar" |
| E[foo^="bar"] | an E element whose "foo" attribute value begins exactly with the string "bar" |
| E[foo$="bar"] | an E element whose "foo" attribute value ends exactly with the string "bar" |
| E[foo*="bar"] | an E element whose "foo" attribute value contains the substring "bar" |
| E[hreflang|="en"] | an E element whose "hreflang" attribute has a hyphen-separated list of values beginning (from the left) with "en" |
| E:root | an E element, root of the document |
| E:nth-child(n) | an E element, the n-th child of its parent |
| E:nth-child(odd) | Match elements <E> that are the odd-numbered children of the parent element |
| E:nth-child(even) | Match elements <E> that are the even-numbered children of the parent element |
| E:nth-last-child(n) | an E element, the n-th child of its parent, counting from the last one |
| E:nth-of-type(n) | an E element, the n-th sibling of its type |
| E:nth-last-of-type(n) | an E element, the n-th sibling of its type, counting from the last one |
| E:first-child | an E element, first child of its parent |
| E:last-child | an E element, last child of its parent |
| E:first-of-type | an E element, first sibling of its type |
| E:last-of-type | an E element, last sibling of its type |
| E:only-child | an E element, only child of its parent |
| E:only-of-type | an E element, only sibling of its type |
| E:empty | an E element that has no children (including text nodes) |
| E:link | an E element being the source anchor of a hyperlink of which the target is not yet visited (:link) |
| E:visited | an E element being the source anchor of a hyperlink of which the target is already visited (:visited) |
| E:active | an E element during certain user actions |
| E:hover | an E element during certain user actions |
| E:focus | an E element during certain user actions |
| E:target | an E element being the target of the referring URI |
| E:lang(fr) | an element of type E in language "fr" |
| E:enabled | a user interface element E which is enabled |
| E:disabled | a user interface element E which is edisabled |
| E:checked | a user interface element E which is checked |
| E::first-line | the first formatted line of an E element |
| E::first-letter | the first formatted letter of an E element |
| E::selection | the portion of an E element that is currently selected/highlighted by the user |
| E::before | generated content before an E element |
| E::after | generated content after an E element |
| E.warning | an E element whose class is "warning" |
| E:not(s) | an E element that does not match simple selector s |