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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Polish the Navigation and Footer

Posted by Sauli Laitinen
Sauli Laitinen
5,992 Points

Classes

Where could I find more information about the classes? The way how ".social-icon" was used instead of some other way of styling the icons is not quite clear.

3 Answers

Errol Ikalina
Errol Ikalina
353 Points
Errol Ikalina
Errol Ikalina
353 Points

For example classes are sometimes used instead of IDs because you can have multiple classes in one page whereas you can only have one ID per page. For example, if you want to apply a setting to several elements in one go you would use class and apply the class to all of them and the settings will be applied to all elements that has that particular class name. Ids on the other hand can only appear once on a page and is particular to one element. You can have many IDs but no IDs can have the same name.

Hope this helps a bit.

Sauli Laitinen
Sauli Laitinen
5,992 Points
Sauli Laitinen
Sauli Laitinen
5,992 Points

Thanks, this helped a lot.

Sauli Laitinen
Sauli Laitinen
5,992 Points
Sauli Laitinen
Sauli Laitinen
5,992 Points

Thanks, this helped a lot.