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Asked: June 17, 20262026-06-17T17:51:44+00:00 2026-06-17T17:51:44+00:00

Is a selector like .a, .b, .c, .d, .e, .f, .g, .h, ……… ,

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Is a selector like

.a, .b, .c, .d, .e, .f, .g, .h, ......... , .zzzzz {font-size:16px}

bad for performance? If yes how and if no why?

I Googled and read a lot of posts including the ones by Mozilla and couldn’t find any mention of having a large number of class names as a selector being bad.

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    2026-06-17T17:51:46+00:00Added an answer on June 17, 2026 at 5:51 pm

    No, there is no performance problem here.

    What is bad is a long selector involving many checks but your selector is in fact a sequence of selectors, equivalent to

     .a {font-size:16px}
     .b {font-size:16px}
      ...
    

    Selectors with just a class are among the most efficient ones.

    There’s no real problem, even if you probably should have less classes in order to manage your code more easily.

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