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HTML How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add Iconography

Dylan Carter
Dylan Carter
4,780 Points
Posted by Dylan Carter
Dylan Carter
4,780 Points

Question about the " .contact-info li.phone " concept

the reason we have to put the li before the .phone (or mail or twitter), is it because it does not start chain?

For example if I wanted to select phone directly, could I just use .phone {xx:yyy;}? or would it still need to be li.phone {yyy.xx;}?

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

The selector li.phone will target all list items that have the class phone. If you use just .phone as a selector, it will target every item (of any kind) that has the class phone.

Now, whether that makes a difference to your page display will depend on whether there are any other elements with that class. If no other elements have that class, it won't make any difference.

Marco Boretto
Marco Boretto
29,821 Points
Marco Boretto
Marco Boretto
29,821 Points

it depends if you want specifically add styles to a li element with a class .phone otherwise if you want generally apply the style to all the elements sharing the .phone class just use .phone { xx:yyy}