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CSS CSS Foundations The Box Model Floats

Posted by Alison Osworth
Alison Osworth
7,825 Points

The answer was incorrect when I added the class "group" after the class "badge" in the HTML file. Does the order matter?

That's literally the whole question. When applying two classes to the same HTML element, does the order matter? If so, how do I determine the order?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Floats</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="badge">
        <img class="badge-icon" src="flag.png">
        <h4>Build a Simple Website</h4>
        <p class="badge-desc">Smells Like Bakin' is a cupcake company in need of a website. This project will walk us through the basics of HTML and CSS from the very beginning. HTML and CSS are the structural and presentational building blocks of every website and will serve as the foundation for any web project.</p>
    </div>
</body>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */







/* clearfix styles */

.group:before,
.group:after {
  display: table;
  content: "";
}
.group:after {
  clear: both;
}

1 Answer

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

No it doesn't. So long as the syntax is correct, the order doesn't matter, so it can be either:

<div class="badge group">

or:

<div class="group badge">
Alison Osworth
Alison Osworth
7,825 Points

Thank you very much!