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What is the shortest selector (by character count) to select ALL html elements on a web page, without using asterisk (*)? Some examples are the following:

a,:not(a) /*9 chars*/

:nth-child(n) /*12 chars*/

:link,:not(:link) /*17 chars*/
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    \$\begingroup\$ In Firefox at least, there's no HTML · element (it's an illegal tag name), so could you shorten a,:not(a) to :not(·)? \$\endgroup\$
    – Neil
    Oct 28 at 19:37
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Neil That's interesting. What is the significance of the middle dot character (U+00B7)? Was it just a random character you chose? \$\endgroup\$
    – user3163495
    Oct 28 at 19:43
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    \$\begingroup\$ It was the first one I found where document.createElement threw an error but :not did not. \$\endgroup\$
    – Neil
    Oct 28 at 19:44
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Neil After playing around with some more special symbols, I was curious to know if there were any "standard" symbols could be typed from a keyboard. The only symbol I could get to work that exists on a keyboard is a double backslash: :not(\\). I wonder why and how that works, but something like :not(^) does not. \$\endgroup\$
    – user3163495
    Oct 28 at 20:07
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Neil Update: other characters also work when preceded by a backslash, for example :not(\*) and :not(\#) \$\endgroup\$
    – user3163495
    Oct 28 at 20:15

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