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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Grouping and Modifying Selectors

Posted by Berenice Ashikian
Berenice Ashikian
1,537 Points

class selectors

I got confused with classes during my interaction with the following:

<p class: "intro">

and

<div class= "meaningfulnamehere">

Aren't they both classes? What's the difference?

¡Thank you

2 Answers

Daniel Lee
Daniel Lee
7,809 Points

I think you got confused between pseudo class and the class.

The first example is slightly wrong but it indicates the pseudo class in CSS that can be used with attribute tag to specify the state of the attribute.For instance, p:visited {}. and second is the correct syntax for declaring class in CSS. And of course I am sure you know dot can be used with class name to access in CSS.

I hope this helps.

Veronica Rivera
Veronica Rivera
32,599 Points
Veronica Rivera
Veronica Rivera
32,599 Points

The first one is not correct.

When you give an element a class in your html, you use = not :

So the second one is correct.