If at all possible don't use class names that describe the way something
looks, but more what the thing actually is. I find that using names that
discribe the style of something will almost always come back to bite
you. And depending on how large you project is, it can bite pretty hard.
I was
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Subject: [WSG] CSS class and id naming conventions
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a set of naming conventions for css classes and ids?
Should they have semantic meaning? I.E. address rather than bottom.
How should you go about naming the right column div.
div id=right-col
I like to opt for naming conventions that work across all pages of the
site and all layouts where possible. The suggestions mentioned by
others of nav and navSub are ones I always use.
Be careful though not to get carried away with content specific
naming. Giving a column an id of 'news' rather
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a set of naming conventions for css classes and ids?
Should they have semantic meaning? I.E. address rather than bottom.
How should you go about naming the right column div.
div id=right-col/div
div id=right_col/div
div id=right-column/div
div
Whilst it won't affect accessibility or usability for the end user
(afaik) the class and id names should have semantic meaning indicating
there logical function - rather than id=rightColumn you might use
id=localNavColumn if the function of the column was to contain local
nav. This means if
James Oppenheim wrote:
I tend to use underscore for class and id, try very much to stay away
from two word file names.
This is a question (discussion?) that comes up every couple of months
here on the list - ultimately, I reckon you'll get as many
'conventions' in use as you've offered
James,
Read this:
http://www.westciv.com/courses/free/week_05/managing_files.html
and Tantek's presentation today at WE05, especially meaningful class names part
http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/09/elements-of-xhtml/
Cheers, Irina.
On 9/30/05, NickGleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James
