Can I select a DOM element based on an HTML comment it contains? -

using either css3 or xpath expressions, i'd know if there way select element contains html comment.

for example:

<table>…</table> <table> <!--this 1 --> …</table>

how can select 2nd table without using other attributes? (it may not 2nd table)

with xpath can done using comment() node test:

//table[.//comment()[contains(., 'this one')]]

this selects table elements containing comment (at depth) contains text 'this one'.

i'm pretty sure impossible css.

XPATH