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Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
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Posted by Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
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ID selectors and Class selectors in CSS

I know that an element can have only 1 ID but can have many Classes however the thing that i do not get is I can use the same ID for different elements same as Classes I tried it and it worked so i cant see what is the difference between ID and Class selectors except that an element can have only 1 ID but can have many Classes

Mathew Tran
Mathew Tran
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Mathew Tran
Mathew Tran
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That is exactly the main difference between id's and classes!

Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
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Nour El-din El-helw
Nour El-din El-helw
8,241 Points

so I can use the same ID for different elements same as Classes right?

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Mathew Tran
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Mathew Tran
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Yep! as you said before though, elements can only have one id, whereas that same element can have any number of classes.

<div id="articlePreview" class="focused animate">
    <p> This is a preview to an article that I am focusing on </p>
</div>
<div id="articlePreview" class="no-animate">
    <p> This is a preview to an article that I am not focusing on </p>
</div>