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fitrobotic
fitrobotic
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Posted by fitrobotic
fitrobotic
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Whats is the difference between a class and an ID?

I think I missed that detail in the lesson awhile back.

Thanks,

Davina

2 Answers

Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

Not a whole lot. The biggest difference between the two is that you can only have one ID of a certain name on a particular page, whereas you can have as many classes with the same name as you want. In the CSS, classes are prefixed with a period (.), IDs with a hash (#).

For instance, I can use the class .nav as often as I want on a HTML page. But I can only use the ID #nav once.

Tommy Gebru
Tommy Gebru
30,164 Points
Tommy Gebru
Tommy Gebru
30,164 Points

CSS selectors allow you to select and manipulate HTML element(s). The id selector uses the id attribute of an HTML tag to find the specific element. An id should be unique within a page, so you should use the id selector when you want to find a single, unique element. The class selector finds elements with the specific class. The class selector uses the HTML class attribute.