How to select HTML elements by text using CSS Selectors?

by scrapecrow Oct 31, 2022

Unfortunately, it's impossible to select values by text using standard CSS selectors. However, many CSS selector clients used in web scraping implement extra functions to enable this useful functionality. For more see:

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