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Hey there, Shopping Meeks, you are listening to another episode of The Shop Talk Show.

I'm Dave Rupert with me as Chris Coyer.

Hey, Chris, how are you?

That's right.

Here we are.

Thanks, Dave.

You know, we have a guest lined up next week, I think.

We're going to get the guest train back around again.

Please write in if you have somebody you'd like to hear from.

We're probably going to go with some classics and whatever else we find interesting.

This week, there's a number of things to talk about.

One of the things that I'm glad and surprised to see so much writing about was the

ATTR, the attribute function in CSS. Chrome has dropped a version of it, which is pretty cool. It's not

new. We've been able to have that function for a long time, but it was really, really limited. I

wouldn't be surprised if people either didn't know it or only used it a very handful of

times when they are doing something like with text.

So for example, it was like a, the only, you can only get a string.

So let me just get that out of the way first.

When you use the ATTR function, what CSS thought you were getting was a string,

regardless of what you think it was.

If you put like data Dave equals five in your HTML and then in CSS said, you know,

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