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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
11,437 Points
Posted by Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
11,437 Points

Why did you start a new anchor rule for the css color declaration. Why not add the color to the existing rule.

Why have two anchor rules in the main css file to change the color. Couldn't you just ad the declaration to the original rule at the very to of the main.css file

4 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Yeah there really was not reason to add the rule again. DRY stands for Don't-Repeat-Yourself, meaning we only want to try to declare everything once in a project.

tomasvukasovic
tomasvukasovic
24,022 Points
tomasvukasovic
tomasvukasovic
24,022 Points

Its most likely that it has been done this way for you to see how new rules change the elements that previously have been declared. Also take into consideration that after doing all the CSS you DRY the code so you avoid having such things

Benjamin Hedgepeth
Benjamin Hedgepeth
5,672 Points
Benjamin Hedgepeth
Benjamin Hedgepeth
5,672 Points

Are you referring solely to the elements within the header container and why there isn't just one rule for that portion?