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{ CSS }
Selector
<span class="[^"]+">([0-9]+)</span>
#main > article > div > h1 > time > span

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12. <span class="name"> John Wagner</span></a></span>
<span class="name"> ([^<]+)</span></a></span>
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17. #article-body > div.pb-sig-line.hasnt-headshot > span.pb-byline > a >
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18. <span class="byline-author" data-byline-name=" John Doe" itemprop="name" > Inner
HTML</span>
If the information you want is a tag
attribute value, simply enter the
name of the attribute
This is what is displayed on the screen to
the user (inside the tag in the page code)

20. element
.class
#id
elem1 > elem2
elem1 elem2
elem1, elem2

21. li
section#float #float
li.li-title .li-title
head, body
body ul > li

22. [attr]
[attr=value]
[attr~=value]
[attr*=value]
[attr^=value]
[attr$=value]

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