CSS Attribute Selectors Exclude

Question

I'm trying to get my icon font to work and I need to exclude icon-blue

[class^="icon-"], [class*=" icon-"] {

  font-family: 'fontname';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-variant: normal;
  text-transform: none;
  line-height: 1;

  /* Better Font Rendering =========== */
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

How can I do this?

Answer 1

First

[class^="icon-"], [class*=" icon-"]

dont make sense because [class^="icon-"] is included in [class*=" icon-"]

To exclude you can use:

[class*="icon-"]:not(.icon-blue)

You have a full example to play here: http://codepen.io/luarmr/pen/dozjZW

Answer 2

You can use the :not() selector like

[class^="icon-"]:not([class="icon-blue"]),
[class*="icon-"]:not([class="icon-blue"]) {

  font-family: 'fontname';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-variant: normal;
  text-transform: none;
  line-height: 1;

  /* Better Font Rendering =========== */
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

[class^="icon-"]:not([class="icon-blue"]),
[class*="icon-"]:not([class="icon-blue"]) {
  background: green;
}

<div class="icon-red">test</div>
<div class="icon-yellow">test</div>
<div class="icon-blue">blue</div>
<div class="small-icon-red">test</div>

Note, you can simplify your selector to just

[class*="icon-"]:not([class="icon-blue"]) {

since *= will cover the ^= cases also.