Extracting HTML jQuery Selectors or Cheerio Selectors



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Selector
Example
Selects
*
$("*")
All elements
$("#lastname")
The element with id="lastname"
$(".intro")
All elements with class="intro"
$(".intro,.demo")
All elements with the class "intro" or "demo"
$("p")
All <p> elements
$("h1,div,p")
All <h1>, <div> and <p> elements
$("p:first")
The first <p> element
$("p:last")
The last <p> element
$("tr:even")
All even <tr> elements
$("tr:odd")
All odd <tr> elements
$("p:first-child")
All <p> elements that are the first child of their parent
$("p:first-of-type")
All <p> elements that are the first <p> element of their parent
$("p:last-child")
All <p> elements that are the last child of their parent
$("p:last-of-type")
All <p> elements that are the last <p> element of their parent
$("p:nth-child(2)")
All <p> elements that are the 2nd child of their parent
$("p:nth-last-child(2)")
All <p> elements that are the 2nd child of their parent, counting from the last child
$("p:nth-of-type(2)")
All <p> elements that are the 2nd <p> element of their parent
$("p:nth-last-of-type(2)")
All <p> elements that are the 2nd <p> element of their parent, counting from the last child
$("p:only-child")
All <p> elements that are the only child of their parent
$("p:only-of-type")
All <p> elements that are the only child, of its type, of their parent
$("div > p")
All <p> elements that are a direct child of a <div> element
$("div p")
All <p> elements that are descendants of a <div> element
$("div + p")
The <p> element that are next to each <div> elements
$("div ~ p")
All <p> elements that are siblings of a <div> element
$("ul li:eq(3)")
The fourth element in a list (index starts at 0)
$("ul li:gt(3)")
List elements with an index greater than 3
$("ul li:lt(3)")
List elements with an index less than 3
$("input:not(:empty)")
All input elements that are not empty
$(":header")
All header elements <h1>, <h2> ...
$(":animated")
All animated elements
$(":focus")
The element that currently has focus
$(":contains('Hello')")
All elements which contains the text "Hello"
$("div:has(p)")
All <div> elements that have a <p> element
$(":empty")
All elements that are empty
$(":parent")
All elements that are a parent of another element
$("p:hidden")
All hidden <p> elements
$("table:visible")
All visible tables
$(":root")
The document's root element
$("p:lang(de)")
All <p> elements with a lang attribute value starting with "de"
$("[href]")
All elements with a href attribute
$("[href='default.htm']")
All elements with a href attribute value equal to "default.htm"
$("[href!='default.htm']")
All elements with a href attribute value not equal to "default.htm"
$("[href$='.jpg']")
All elements with a href attribute value ending with ".jpg"
$("[title|='Tomorrow']")
All elements with a title attribute value equal to 'Tomorrow', or starting with 'Tomorrow' followed by a hyphen
$("[title^='Tom']")
All elements with a title attribute value starting with "Tom"
$("[title~='hello']")
All elements with a title attribute value containing the specific word "hello"
$("[title*='hello']")
All elements with a title attribute value containing the word "hello"
$(":input")
All input elements
$(":text")
All input elements with type="text"
$(":password")
All input elements with type="password"
$(":radio")
All input elements with type="radio"
$(":checkbox")
All input elements with type="checkbox"
$(":submit")
All input elements with type="submit"
$(":reset")
All input elements with type="reset"
$(":button")
All input elements with type="button"
$(":image")
All input elements with type="image"
$(":file")
All input elements with type="file"
$(":enabled")
All enabled input elements
$(":disabled")
All disabled input elements
$(":selected")
All selected input elements
$(":checked")
All checked input elements

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