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CSS

Nikki Turrisi
Nikki Turrisi
15,095 Points
Posted by Nikki Turrisi
Nikki Turrisi
15,095 Points

Why is it in CSS that in order to identify certain properties, the syntax is different?

for example:

if I wanted to select the wrapper element, couldn't I just write:

wrapper {}

instead of ...

(hashtag) wrapper {}

--why is there a # in front of some, and not in front of others in the lesson?

2 Answers

Stephen Goeddel
Stephen Goeddel
11,239 Points

{hashtag} is for id's
. is for classes
and nothing is for html elements.

Caleb King
Caleb King
32,777 Points
Caleb King
Caleb King
32,777 Points

To ellaborate the '#' and '.' are used for CSS specificity purposes. When you begin to build more complex web pages then you'll start using classes to chunk changes together rather than make the same change multiple times. for example.

#customer .tabContainer div {
   font: Arial, #000 solid;
   padding: 10px
}

You know you are pinpointing that part of the code because of the classes, id and tag. Then if want to be more specific then you would add either another class or id.