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Selecting Partial Attribute Names using XPath

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              <h1>Selecting Partial Attribute Names</h1>
<h2>using Xpath</h2>

<p>Selecting elements based on partial attribute name match isn't something CSS or JavaScript are equipped to do, but it <em>is</em> something which XPath is able to select fairly easily!</p>
<p>Below we have two examples of tags with custom attribute names, and if we wanted to select them in CSS or JavaScript we would have no way other than using the CSS selector <code>data-custom-1, data-custom-2</code>. But we can only write selectors like this if we know all of the custom attributes that might show up.</p>
<p>By using XPath with the following selector: <code>//*[@*[starts-with(name(), "data-custom-")]]</code> we are able to select all tags whose attributes begin with <code>data-custom-</code></p>

<h2>Demo:</h2>
<div data-custom-1>custom 1</div>
<div data-custom-2>custom 2</div>
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              var tags = document.evaluate('//*[@*[starts-with(name(), "data-custom-")]]', document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null)

try {

  var node = tags.iterateNext()

  while (node) {

    node.style.color = 'black'
    node.style.background = 'lime'

    node = tags.iterateNext()
  }

}

catch (e) {
  console.log('couldn\'t style ' + e)
}
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