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CSS CSS Selectors Selectors - Beyond the Basics DRY CSS

Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey
13,190 Points
Posted by Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey
13,190 Points

Selector Problem - Using previous video with this one

When following this video (and the previous one) I noticed an issue when using the selectors.

In this video he eddited the class "form-contact" using this selector:

 .form-contact {
    padding: 20px 24px;
    background: #f4f7f8;
}

Then added this class selector and then added the class to the HTML to create a border-radius.

.br {
    border-radius: .5em;
}

This is the HTML

<form class="form-contact br">

This all works fine.

But when you use the selector from the previous video, and then add the .br class it completly removes the background for the .form-contact class. (Using the same HTML).

Previous selector:

form[class="form-contact"] {
    padding: 20px 24px;
    background: #f4f7f8;
}

I read the docs but I can't find a reason why is does this...

Does it have anything to do with the attribute selector string class="form-contact" not able to be matched once we put the "br" in there as well?

Can anyone shed some light?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

You're right, the "=" in the attribute selector requires an exact match of the entire class setting. The way to combine the tag and the class in the selector without making it exclusive would be like this:

form.form-contact {
Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey
13,190 Points
Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey
13,190 Points

Thank you, I had a feeling it would be an exact match so thank you for confirming and expanding on it