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Ananya Jha
7,058 PointsStyling classes in css
If we have defined the class as "selected" for a link in navigation bar of our website, we write the css as "nav a.selected {}"(where a is for the anchor tag). But for a class defined inside the footer's img tag we directly write ".social-icon {}" instead of "footer img.social-icon {}". So basically my question is what is the difference between the two?
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John Breiner
6,918 PointsSelected is a pseudo class and you want to make sure it's just for the link in the nav. Where as the other class you can limit it, by simply not repeating that class.