<a> tag

[ctoz]

I've filed, for exploring later, what looks like an html snippet:

a[href^="http://"]

...but Google doesn't recognise the non-alpha characters—so I'm a bit in the dark as to how to search for it.

Can anyone point to a site that explains how it functions?

[Fotiman]

[w3.org...]
I'm not sure how it's being used, but it looks like a CSS selector that would match all a element whose "href" attribute value begins exactly with the string "http://"

[ctoz]

Yup, that explains it. I think I can play with it now. Thanks.