Protractor - How to locate element by custom (non HTML) attributes?

Question

I am using Selenium WebDriver and Protractor to run e2e tests on my angular project. Let\'s say I have an element like:

Answer 1

try using:

element(by.css('[my-unique-id="abc123"]'))

it's easier and more readable than xpath for simple cases.

more about xpath syntax and when it is usefull: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_xpath.asp