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Posted by susan reichmann
susan reichmann
2,224 Points

What is the difference between class and element selectors?

What is the difference between class and element selectors?

1 Answer

Ken Alger
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Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Susan;

Great question. HTML elements are things like <h1>, <p>, <div>, <nav>, etc. They are the building blocks of the page. Classes are names/conventions the developer includes that will go inside the angle brackets of an element and allow for more specific, or general styling in CSS or functionality in JavaScript.

You can do some similar things with both, but adding classes to elements allows for more granular control.

For example:

<p>Some Text</p>
<p>Some More Text</p>
<p class="last_line">The last line of text</p>

In CSS you can target all <p> elements to style them or you could just style the one with the class "last_line". This is a general overview as you can do much more with CSS and pick and choose which <p> elements to target in this example, but the example is just for simplicity.

Post back with additional questions.

Happy coding,
Ken

susan reichmann
susan reichmann
2,224 Points

Thanks!