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Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 PointsNaming conventions
Hi
I was just wondering if there is a best practice in html and css as there is with javaScript of naming conventions when there are two or more words.
So for example I currently do this for the following items
images this_is_a_frog.jpg
page names - this-is-a-frog.php
classes and ID's - .this-is-a-frog
downloads - This_is_a_Frog.pdf
Does anyone have any insight into this please.
G
2 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsTL;DR Version
lowercase all class, IDs & file names & use dashes as a delimiter
The reason for using lowercase:
- Lowercase your file names as a general rule, because nearly all production web servers are Linux and Linux is case-sensative for file names
- HTML is also case-sensative
The reason for using dashes in IDs & class names:
- It's largely the convention
- Google's HTML & CSS Style Guide concurs
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 PointsCool thanks for this James