What does the '.' on .profile-photo do in my CSS? http://screencast.com/t/6og10y3W

This just signifies that you are using a class selector. So to select an element with a specific class attribute in our HTML, we use the . character followed by the class name.

For example in your HTML you might have something like this :

<div class="someclass">

So in our css we would use the class selector to target this by typing a . then the classes name :

.someclass {

}

Hope this helps!

Hi!

the . means you are accessing a class :) and the same works for id's so you would use # to access a class.

if i had a class called hello then i would access it by doing .hello{}

if i had an id called hello then i would access it by doing #hello{}

I hope this helps! if you have anymore questions feel free to ask!

Hi Dan,

What you see here is the class "profile-photo". Whenever we see a "." followed by text in a CSS file, in this case ".profile-photo", we are looking at the values given to to the class linked to whichever HTML file the current CSS file is working alongside.

In this case, if you reference back to your HTML file, you should see a class labeled as, ' class = "profile-photo" '.

-Richard