Is there a CSS selector for elements containing certain text?

Question

I am looking for a CSS selector for the following table:

Peter    | male    | 34
Susanne  | female  | 12

Is there any selector to match all

Answer 1

You could set content as data attribute and then use attribute selectors, as shown here:

/* Select every cell containing word "male" */
td[data-content="male"] {
  color: red;
}

/* Select every cell starting on "p" case insensitive */
td[data-content^="p" i] {
  color: blue;
}

/* Select every cell containing "4" */
td[data-content*="4"] {
  color: green;
}

  

    
Peter
    
male
    
34
  
  

    
Susanne
    
female
    
14
  

You can also use jQuery to easily set the data-content attributes:

$(function(){
  $("td").each(function(){
    var $this = $(this);
    $this.attr("data-content", $this.text());
  });
});