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HTML5 navigation elements

Soliman Sylvain — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:59:17 +0000

?5 : nav li,section:not(:has(section))

list items in the navigation area and lowest level sections

Wordpress Admin List views

Ankit — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:44:31 +0000

Navigate through items in list views (e.g. edit.php) in Wordpress Admin.

wp : a.row-title,td.media.column-media>strong>a

Wordpress Admin Sidebar Menu

Dan Jones — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:08:29 +0000

?wpamenu : #adminmenu > li:not(.wp-menu-separator)

In the Wordpress Admin area, this selects the menu items in the left-side nav bar.

Level-specific headline selectors

Brett Terpstra — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:31:06 +0000

Ok, these are stupid, but I’m finding them useful (because the fewer keystrokes, the happier I am).

?2 : h2 ?3 : h3 ?4 : h4

On a well marked-up blog page, these will usually help you quickly narrow down the search to just article headlines, skipping sub-headlines and sidebars. Not perfect, but a quick solution for new pages you probably won’t be back to.

Next!

Brett Terpstra — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:33:38 +0000

n : a[class^=next],a[rel=next],a:contains("Next"),a:contains("Older"),a:contains("More")

A work in progress, but working on many sites. Just type ?n on a results page or listing, and it looks for the “Next” button (or “older posts”, “more results”, etc.).

Page Top (On Most Websites)

Hen Asraf — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:20:34 +0000

?top : body>div:first-of-type

This should in most cases bring you to the very top of the page, or a few px below it — depending on the structure; this will usually bring you to the website’s header.

Twitter shared links

Sameer — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:29:17 +0000

?t : a.web

Selects links shared in tweets. Works on all twitter.com stream pages, but not the search results page. I use it to quickly navigate through the links shared by people on twitter (And to open them in tabs using SHIFT+ENTER).