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- # css-select [](https://npmjs.org/package/css-select) [](http://travis-ci.com/fb55/css-select) [](https://npmjs.org/package/css-select) [](https://coveralls.io/r/fb55/css-select)
- A CSS selector compiler and engine
- ## What?
- As a **compiler**, css-select turns CSS selectors into functions that tests if
- elements match them.
- As an **engine**, css-select looks through a DOM tree, searching for elements.
- Elements are tested "from the top", similar to how browsers execute CSS
- selectors.
- In its default configuration, css-select queries the DOM structure of the
- [`domhandler`](https://github.com/fb55/domhandler) module (also known as
- htmlparser2 DOM). To query alternative DOM structures, see [`Options`](#options)
- below.
- **Features:**
- - 🔬 Full implementation of CSS3 selectors, as well as most CSS4 selectors
- - 🧪 Partial implementation of jQuery/Sizzle extensions (see
- [cheerio-select](https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio-select) for the
- remaining selectors)
- - 🧑🔬 High test coverage, including the full test suites from Sizzle, Qwery and
- NWMatcher.
- - 🥼 Reliably great performance
- ## Why?
- Most CSS engines written in JavaScript execute selectors left-to-right. That
- means thet execute every component of the selector in order, from left to right
- _(duh)_. As an example: For the selector `a b`, these engines will first query
- for `a` elements, then search these for `b` elements. (That's the approach of
- eg. [`Sizzle`](https://github.com/jquery/sizzle),
- [`nwmatcher`](https://github.com/dperini/nwmatcher/) and
- [`qwery`](https://github.com/ded/qwery).)
- While this works, it has some downsides: Children of `a`s will be checked
- multiple times; first, to check if they are also `a`s, then, for every superior
- `a` once, if they are `b`s. Using
- [Big O notation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation), that would be
- `O(n^(k+1))`, where `k` is the number of descendant selectors (that's the space
- in the example above).
- The far more efficient approach is to first look for `b` elements, then check if
- they have superior `a` elements: Using big O notation again, that would be
- `O(n)`. That's called right-to-left execution.
- And that's what css-select does – and why it's quite performant.
- ## How does it work?
- By building a stack of functions.
- _Wait, what?_
- Okay, so let's suppose we want to compile the selector `a b`, for right-to-left
- execution. We start by _parsing_ the selector. This turns the selector into an
- array of the building blocks. That's what the
- [`css-what`](https://github.com/fb55/css-what) module is for, if you want to
- have a look.
- Anyway, after parsing, we end up with an array like this one:
- ```js
- [
- { type: "tag", name: "a" },
- { type: "descendant" },
- { type: "tag", name: "b" },
- ];
- ```
- (Actually, this array is wrapped in another array, but that's another story,
- involving commas in selectors.)
- Now that we know the meaning of every part of the selector, we can compile it.
- That is where things become interesting.
- The basic idea is to turn every part of the selector into a function, which
- takes an element as its only argument. The function checks whether a passed
- element matches its part of the selector: If it does, the element is passed to
- the next function representing the next part of the selector. That function does
- the same. If an element is accepted by all parts of the selector, it _matches_
- the selector and double rainbow ALL THE WAY.
- As said before, we want to do right-to-left execution with all the big O
- improvements. That means elements are passed from the rightmost part of the
- selector (`b` in our example) to the leftmost (~~which would be `c`~~ of course
- `a`).
- For traversals, such as the _descendant_ operating the space between `a` and
- `b`, we walk up the DOM tree, starting from the element passed as argument.
- _//TODO: More in-depth description. Implementation details. Build a spaceship._
- ## API
- ```js
- const CSSselect = require("css-select");
- ```
- **Note:** css-select throws errors when invalid selectors are passed to it.This
- is done to aid with writing css selectors, but can be unexpected when processing
- arbitrary strings.
- #### `CSSselect.selectAll(query, elems, options)`
- Queries `elems`, returns an array containing all matches.
- - `query` can be either a CSS selector or a function.
- - `elems` can be either an array of elements, or a single element. If it is an
- element, its children will be queried.
- - `options` is described below.
- Aliases: `default` export, `CSSselect.iterate(query, elems)`.
- #### `CSSselect.compile(query, options)`
- Compiles the query, returns a function.
- #### `CSSselect.is(elem, query, options)`
- Tests whether or not an element is matched by `query`. `query` can be either a
- CSS selector or a function.
- #### `CSSselect.selectOne(query, elems, options)`
- Arguments are the same as for `CSSselect.selectAll(query, elems)`. Only returns
- the first match, or `null` if there was no match.
- ### Options
- All options are optional.
- - `xmlMode`: When enabled, tag names will be case-sensitive. Default: `false`.
- - `rootFunc`: The last function in the stack, will be called with the last
- element that's looked at.
- - `adapter`: The adapter to use when interacting with the backing DOM
- structure. By default it uses the `domutils` module.
- - `context`: The context of the current query. Used to limit the scope of
- searches. Can be matched directly using the `:scope` pseudo-selector.
- - `cacheResults`: Allow css-select to cache results for some selectors,
- sometimes greatly improving querying performance. Disable this if your
- document can change in between queries with the same compiled selector.
- Default: `true`.
- #### Custom Adapters
- A custom adapter must match the interface described
- [here](https://github.com/fb55/css-select/blob/1aa44bdd64aaf2ebdfd7f338e2e76bed36521957/src/types.ts#L6-L96).
- You may want to have a look at [`domutils`](https://github.com/fb55/domutils) to
- see the default implementation, or at
- [`css-select-browser-adapter`](https://github.com/nrkn/css-select-browser-adapter/blob/master/index.js)
- for an implementation backed by the DOM.
- ## Supported selectors
- _As defined by CSS 4 and / or jQuery._
- - [Selector lists](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Selector_list)
- (`,`)
- - [Universal](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Universal_selectors)
- (`*`)
- - [Type](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Type_selectors)
- (`<tagname>`)
- - [Descendant](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Descendant_combinator)
- (` `)
- - [Child](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Child_combinator)
- (`>`)
- - Parent (`<`)
- - [Adjacent sibling](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Adjacent_sibling_combinator)
- (`+`)
- - [General sibling](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/General_sibling_combinator)
- (`~`)
- - [Attribute](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors)
- (`[attr=foo]`), with supported comparisons:
- - `[attr]` (existential)
- - `=`
- - `~=`
- - `|=`
- - `*=`
- - `^=`
- - `$=`
- - `!=`
- - `i` and `s` can be added after the comparison to make the comparison
- case-insensitive or case-sensitive (eg. `[attr=foo i]`). If neither is
- supplied, css-select will follow the HTML spec's
- [case-sensitivity rules](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics-other.html#case-sensitivity-of-selectors).
- - Pseudos:
- - [`:not`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:not)
- - [`:contains`](https://api.jquery.com/contains-selector)
- - `:icontains` (case-insensitive version of `:contains`)
- - [`:has`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:has)
- - [`:root`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:root)
- - [`:empty`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:empty)
- - [`:parent`](https://api.jquery.com/parent-selector)
- - [`:first-child`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:first-child),
- [`:last-child`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:last-child),
- [`:first-of-type`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:first-of-type),
- [`:last-of-type`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:last-of-type)
- - [`:only-of-type`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:only-of-type),
- [`:only-child`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:only-child)
- - [`:nth-child`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:nth-child),
- [`:nth-last-child`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:nth-last-child),
- [`:nth-of-type`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:nth-of-type),
- [`:nth-last-of-type`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:nth-last-of-type),
- - [`:link`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:link),
- [`:any-link`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:any-link)
- - [`:visited`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited),
- [`:hover`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:hover),
- [`:active`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:active)
- (these depend on optional `Adapter` methods, so these will only match
- elements if implemented in `Adapter`)
- - [`:selected`](https://api.jquery.com/selected-selector),
- [`:checked`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:checked)
- - [`:enabled`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:enabled),
- [`:disabled`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:disabled)
- - [`:required`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:required),
- [`:optional`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:optional)
- - [`:header`](https://api.jquery.com/header-selector),
- [`:button`](https://api.jquery.com/button-selector),
- [`:input`](https://api.jquery.com/input-selector),
- [`:text`](https://api.jquery.com/text-selector),
- [`:checkbox`](https://api.jquery.com/checkbox-selector),
- [`:file`](https://api.jquery.com/file-selector),
- [`:password`](https://api.jquery.com/password-selector),
- [`:reset`](https://api.jquery.com/reset-selector),
- [`:radio`](https://api.jquery.com/radio-selector) etc.
- - [`:is`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:is), plus its
- legacy alias `:matches`
- - [`:scope`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:scope)
- (uses the context from the passed options)
- ---
- License: BSD-2-Clause
- ## Security contact information
- To report a security vulnerability, please use the
- [Tidelift security contact](https://tidelift.com/security). Tidelift will
- coordinate the fix and disclosure.
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