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HTML How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Style New Pages

Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points
Posted by Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points

Why is social-icon and profile-picture a class and not an id?

Couldn't an ID work just fine for this since they're static (and you aren't adding a function to it like the navbar which has a selected class)

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Steven Snary
Steven Snary
17,540 Points
Steven Snary
Steven Snary
17,540 Points

The general answer is that Classes should be used when you want to apply a style to more than one element - so let's say you want the same style for a Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin svg or image. You would give them all the class of social-icon.

ID's are only to be used if you will be applying the class to one specific element - you should never give an ID to more than one element.