CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) selectors are patterns used to select and target specific HTML elements on a web page for styling and manipulation. CSS Selectors allow us to apply styles selectively to specific elements based on various criteria such as element type, class, ID, attributes, and their relationships with other elements in the HTML structure.

Types of CSS selectors

There are several types of selectors in CSS. Here is a categorized list of CSS selectors for Python web scraping:

  • Basic selectors

  • Attribute selectors

  • Relationship selectors

  • Advanced selectors

  • Combination and grouping selectors

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