How to workaround: IE6 does not support CSS "attribute" selectors

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Published on 2009-03-16T05:15:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 6:23 UTC
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One of the projects which I am working uses CSS "attribute" selector [att]

which is not supported by ie6: Support for CSS selectors in IE6 (look for text "Attribute Selectors")

Is there any workaround/hack which is of course valid html/css to overcome this problem?

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