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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Class and ID Selectors

Posted by nathan marq
nathan marq
1,939 Points

at the 3M 17S mark of the video ... why is a class .main-header... created instead of an ID since its used 1x pr page?

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1 Answer

Eric Martz
Eric Martz
16,007 Points
Eric Martz
Eric Martz
16,007 Points

Nathan,

I am sure Guil had his own reasons, but from what I have read it is best practice to use classes rather than ID's. The two main reasons are code-reuse and specificity issues. You're right that the header will only appear once per page, so my guess would be to use a main-header class to prevent specificity issues.

Eric