I read some where that its better to use less specific selectors in CSS. I’m on my second FCC project (the survey form), and see that they asked for elements to be tagged with id="". Is there a reason for the projects requests for ID tags? What is the reason for using class tags over id tags? By t…

It’s perfectly legit for a class to only get applied to a single element, and indeed it happens all the time. It’s just that they can potentially be repeated, and that would make the tests much more complicated to sort out which element they’re actually supposed to be testing. In the real world, y…

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FCC projects: Why id tags and not class?

jenovs March 1, 2019, 2:18pm 2

CSS classes rather than IDs in first few projects? Contributors

The first few FCC projects include several user stories like this: “User Story #1: My tribute page should have an element with a corresponding id=“main”, which contains all other elements.” Build a tribute page In these first few projects, I think FCC should get students into good habits by pushing them towards using classes rather than IDs as much as possible. The reasons why are laid out here by Harry Roberts: The Specificity graph Clearly in these initial small projects, using IDs rather …

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