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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Classes in CSS

Posted by dotz
dotz
6,733 Points

What would happen... using class selectors

At 3:00, Nick uses nav a.selected to apply CSS to a new class he has created. Just wondering why you don't use .selected instead. Would that also work?

1 Answer

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,868 Points

Hi Michelle,

That would also work but would target every element with a class of "selected".

Nick's example specifically targets anchor tags within the nav element with that class.

Hope that helps

-Rich