Css Selectors Knowledgebase

how to parse HTML using CSS selectors in Nim programming language using either CSS3Selectors or nimquery libraries.

It's not possible to select preceding sibling directly but there are easy alternatives that can be implemented to select preceding siblings.

To select following sibling elements using CSS selectors the + and ~ operators can be used. Here's how.

To select elements by class the .class selector can be used. To select by exact class value the [class="exact value"] can be used instead. Here's how.

To select elements that contain an ID the #id selector can be used. To select elements by exact ID the [id="some value"] can be used. Here's how.

To select elements by attribute the powerful attribute selector can be used which has several selection options. Here's how.

It's not possible to select HTML elements by text in original CSS selectors specification but here are some alternative ways to do it.

To parse HTML using CSS selectors in Python we can use either BeautifulSoup or Parsel packages. Here's how.

To find HTML nodes by class name CSS selectors or XPath can be used. For that .class css selector can be used or XPath's text() matcher.

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