css-what (6.2.2)

Published 2026-02-24 13:54:53 +00:00 by atheaadmin

Installation

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npm install css-what@6.2.2
"css-what": "6.2.2"

About this package

css-what

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A CSS selector parser.

Example

import * as CSSwhat from "css-what";

CSSwhat.parse("foo[bar]:baz")

~> [
    [
        { type: "tag", name: "foo" },
        {
            type: "attribute",
            name: "bar",
            action: "exists",
            value: "",
            ignoreCase: null
        },
        { type: "pseudo", name: "baz", data: null }
    ]
]

API

CSSwhat.parse(selector) - Parses selector.

The function returns a two-dimensional array. The first array represents selectors separated by commas (eg. sub1, sub2), the second contains the relevant tokens for that selector. Possible token types are:

name properties example output
tag name div { type: 'tag', name: 'div' }
universal - * { type: 'universal' }
pseudo name, data :name(data) { type: 'pseudo', name: 'name', data: 'data' }
pseudo name, data :name { type: 'pseudo', name: 'name', data: null }
pseudo-element name ::name { type: 'pseudo-element', name: 'name' }
attribute name, action, value, ignoreCase [attr] { type: 'attribute', name: 'attr', action: 'exists', value: '', ignoreCase: false }
attribute name, action, value, ignoreCase [attr=val] { type: 'attribute', name: 'attr', action: 'equals', value: 'val', ignoreCase: false }
attribute name, action, value, ignoreCase [attr^=val] { type: 'attribute', name: 'attr', action: 'start', value: 'val', ignoreCase: false }
attribute name, action, value, ignoreCase [attr$=val] { type: 'attribute', name: 'attr', action: 'end', value: 'val', ignoreCase: false }
child - > { type: 'child' }
parent - < { type: 'parent' }
sibling - ~ { type: 'sibling' }
adjacent - + { type: 'adjacent' }
descendant - { type: 'descendant' }
column-combinator - || { type: 'column-combinator' }

CSSwhat.stringify(selector) - Turns selector back into a string.


License: BSD-2-Clause

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Dependencies

Development Dependencies

ID Version
@types/jest ^27.4.1
@types/node ^17.0.23
@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin ^5.17.0
@typescript-eslint/parser ^5.17.0
eslint ^8.12.0
eslint-config-prettier ^8.5.0
eslint-plugin-node ^11.1.0
jest ^27.5.1
prettier ^2.6.1
ts-jest ^27.1.4
typescript ^4.6.3
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