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Katsumi Suno
4,194 PointsWhy does Nick use "class" for items which appear just once?
One says "use ID if you only ever use one of these elements, use class if there's more than one instance of it".
But I got confused over this stage in particular because Nick uses class for all these list items on the contact page (phone, email). Why is that? They just appear once on that very page...
Are there other reasons to use class over id?
1 Answer
Wayne Priestley
19,579 PointsHi Katsumi,
An ID has more specificity than a Class, so really you should use it rather than a class if its appropriate, but its mostly down to what you prefer.
Unless you think that you may need to use that specific styling elsewhere in you code in the future. If thats the case then using a class will result in less code being written.
Hope this helps.