Targeting id's with scrapy css selector

Question

HTML = '
    <div class="box">
        <div id="grid">
            <div class="content">hello</div>
        </div>
    </div>
'

--stuff happens here--

response.css('div.thread [*] div.mix').getall()

*how do I search for divs without a class? No matter what suggestion I find online I keep getting the error "expected something got delim..."

Answer 1

You need to use # for an id attribute:

response.css('div#grid')

Or you can select it by attribute notation:

response.css('div[id="grid"]')