Style Links Depending on Destination
a[href^="http://"] {
/* fully valid URL, likely external link */
}
a[href="http://google.com"] {
/* link to specific website */
}
a[href^="/"], a[href^=".."] {
/* internal relative link */
}
a[href^="mailto:"] {
/* email link */
}
a[href$=".pdf"] {
/* PDF file */
}
a[href$=".doc"] {
/* Microsoft Word document */
}
a[href$=".mp3"] {
/* Music file */
}
a[href$=".zip"] {
/* Archive file */
}
Wow! This is really neat! I’m sure I’ve seen it before but you’ve displayed it in an easy-to-understand way!
I just have a couple of questions:
1) I imagine that ^ means “beings with”; does $ mean “ends with” or “includes this text somewhere”?
2) Full cross-browser support? IE?
Thanks!
$ is indeed “ends with” (“includes this text somewhere” is [attr*="textanywhere"])
IE7+ has support for it
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html (“Advanced [attr] selectors”)
This is pretty handy. I’ve been using this method for nearly two years now. I saw a couple of new things here though. Thanks for sharing!
For the “link to specific website”, would declaring google.com cover all subdirectories of google.com (ie: google.com/images, google.com/analytics etc?). Or would they need to be specifically declared?
This is my first time encountering this CSS trick and I love it. I was at first a little stymied by it as I needed to style links on my site that had certain text in the URL. Just a bunch of links to products that I wanted to be styled similar to the product’s brand. For this I needed to style links going to any products that had the brand’s name in the URL.
I used a[href*="/brand-name"] and other variations of that to get it done and I’m loving it.
Out of curiosity though, what is this called? This cool trick in the brackets?
Thanks for this awesome post!