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4/8/2010

This topic summarizes the ID Selectors that can be used in Cascading Style Sheets. These are made up from Pseudo Elements and Pseudo Classes.

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Structure	Windows Mobile	CSS Mobile	WAP CSS	CSS1	CSS2	CSS3	Comments
*	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Match any element.
E	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Match any E element.
E F	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Match any F element that is a descendant of an E element.
E > F	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Match any F element that is a child of an E element.
E:active	Yes	Yes		No	Yes	No	Match any E element when the user has that element active.
E:first-child	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Match an E element when it is the first child of its parent.
E:first-line	No	No	No	No		No
E:first-letter	No	No	No	No		No
E:before	No	No	No	No	?	No
E:after	No	No	No	No	?	No
E:focus	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Match any E element when the user has that element in focus.
E:hover	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Match any E element when the user is hovering on that element.
E:lang(c)	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Matches an E element if it is in the language c.
E:link	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Matches an E element that is a unvisited hyperlink.
E:not(c)	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
E:visited	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Matches an E element that is a visited hyperlink.
E + F	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Matches an element F that is immediately preceded by an E element at the same level.
E[X]	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Matches any E element with the X attribute set.
E[X="warning"]	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Matches any E element with the X attribute is set exactly to the value "warning".
E[X~="warning"]	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Matches any E element with the X attribute is a space separated list and one of the elements set exactly to the value "warning".
E[lang\|="en"]	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Matches any E element with the "lang" attribute has a hyphen-separated list of values beginning with "en".
div.warning	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Language specific, but should be the same as `DIV[class="warning"]`.
E#X	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Matches any E element that has an ID which is "X"

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