If you have an HTML page with a class in an element, for instance <div class="myClass">, would it be best to refer to it in the CSS as .myClass or div.myClass?
If you have an HTML page with a class in an element, for instance
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If you have an HTML page with a class in an element, for instance <div class="myClass">, would it be best to refer to it in the CSS as .myClass or div.myClass?
div.myClassmakes the style declaration more specific. In other words, it takes higher priority. So, it’s sometimes a good thing to specify it in order to avoid CSS conflicts when you’ve got many developers onboard a project and people add classes like there’s no tomorrow. In other words, if you’ve got Bob adding:and Sarah adds:
Sarah’s class will trump Bob’s class when you’ve got:
You can get make it even more specific by specifying it with the ID, but that’s sort of outside the scope of your question. 🙂