CSS Selectors

CSS selectors provide a powerful, concise way to find elements. BeautifulSoup supports them through the select() method.

Basic Selectors

Combining Selectors

Descendant and Child Selectors

Attribute Selectors

Pseudo-selectors

Practical Examples

select() vs select_one()

Chaining Selections

CSS Selectors vs find() Methods

Building Selectors from DevTools

Exercise: Write CSS Selectors

Key Takeaways

• CSS selectors offer concise, powerful element selection
• Use select() for multiple elements, select_one() for single
• Combine selectors with space (descendant) or > (child)
• Attribute selectors: [attr], [attr=value], [attr^=start]
• Browser DevTools can help you find selectors
• Simplify auto-generated selectors for maintainability
• CSS selectors often result in cleaner code than find_all()