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Comment by whatshisface | Hacker News Reader

It has changed a lot over time. Now native JS even has query selectors!

Still not all selectors that are in jQuery , I think :header is not yet native, not the selectors by attribute value.

You can select by attribute value. Even "starts with" selectors eg:

  document.querySelectorAll('[name^="starts-with-this"]')

or "containing" selectors:

  document.querySelectorAll('[name*="contains-this"]')

I believe querySelector/querySelectorAll supports all native CSS selectors, including attribute selectors. But jQuery does hahve custom selectors as well (at least last I used it, which is over 10 years ago)

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