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Daniel Oropeza
4,432 PointsIn the CSS, why do we need to declare the class as ".profile-photo" and not "profile-photo"? lol
That's it.
2 Answers
james niemerg
1,001 PointsCharles is right. the period represents a class element in your html. Selectors without a period or # are an html tag like <h1> or <p>.
Daniel Oropeza
4,432 PointsThank you guys. It's a class selector... makes sense. I'll just get the hang of when to use which type of selectors as I go on I suppose.
Charles Ratkie
11,607 PointsCharles Ratkie
11,607 PointsThe period means its a 'class selector'. If you were to use something else like a '#', it would style a single element. the '.' means it would style all of the elements under profile-photo. Hope that helps!