How to select an element using its ID without the high specificity of the ID selector?

in CSS on August 23, 2020

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If we use an attribute selector to select an element by its ID then it will have a lower level of specificity than if it was selected with an ID selector.

For e.g. We can target the same element with [id="ID_name"] and #ID_name but with lower specificity.

HTML


<div id="ID_name">...</div>

CSS


#ID_name { ... } /* High specificity */

[id="ID_name"] { ... } /* Low specificity */

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