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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Take a Mobile-First Approach

Posted by David Benford
David Benford
184 Points

ID's don't work

ID's are only allowed to be used once. What do you use in the place of ID's? divs, class, or is there something else? In Sublime Text 3, it won't read the code.

2 Answers

Devin Scheu
Devin Scheu
66,191 Points
Devin Scheu
Devin Scheu
66,191 Points

You use classes in place of id's if you want more that one. :)

jamescool
jamescool
44,592 Points
jamescool
jamescool
44,592 Points

If IDs are not working, you might want to be sure that you've saved your file with a .CSS extension. Or, if you're working with HTML, with an html extension. If this is not the problem, then be sure that you're using a pound (hash) sign to target IDs and a period to target classes.

A div cannot be used in place of an ID; they are very different things. In fact, a div can HAVE an id. Please post your code if this does not help you.