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Owais Ul Haq
2,020 PointsCSS ids and class
Hi,
Can some one please tell me the main difference between css ids and class ?
Thanks
4 Answers
Steven Parker
231,275 PointsGood question!
These are both ways to identify elements, but an element can have only one ID, and it must be unique — no other element in the document can have the same ID.
On the other hand, an element can have more than one class, and other elements can share the same classes.
Christopher De Lette
Courses Plus Student 7,139 PointsHi Owais Ul Haq ,
id's are attributes used in html and can only be referred to once, whereas a class attribute can be added to limitless other elements and called upon when using CSS. Check out MDN HTML Attribute Reference Sheet
Hope this helps
Take care and Happy Coding!
Owais Ul Haq
2,020 PointsThank you all really appreciate it. :)
Christopher De Lette
Courses Plus Student 7,139 PointsYou're most welcome :)
anthony cummings
9,961 Pointsclass selectors are designated with the (.) in front of the element and can be used more than once on the index.html page: and the (#) element can only be used once (onetime only) on the index.html page. But both assign the syles on the style.css page.
Cameron S
20,537 PointsCameron S
20,537 PointsHi there- the difference is:
ID's are unique. Each element (<div> </div> or <p></p>, etc. can only have one ID. In addition, each page can only have one element with that same ID. You can call an ID in your CSS by using the '#' before the name of the ID, i.e. #myid
Classes are not unique. You can use the same class on multiple elements. In addition, you can have multiple classes on the same element. Say you have <p class='myclass'></p>. You can use that same class on any other element in that page to provide the same attributes defined in your CSS.