On 11/29/05, Mark Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a general question about CSS that I've been able to quite figure > out. > If one has a DIV that will only appear once per page, which should one > use: > a class or an id? > > Classes are obviously useful at applying to multiple elements, or applying > > multiple classes to one element. What advantages have that classes do not? > Specificity comes to mind, but the CSS rules regarding this are hazy in my > mind and I do not know if ids provide more specificity than classes. > > > ID's are meant to be used once on a page, so you use them to describe a specific page element. For instance, Header, Navigation, Footer
Classes, are intended to be used to describe elements which are found multiple times on a page, and generally speaking should be used to Generally speaking I use divs to position things, and classes to determine how they look. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
