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Can someone please tell me why designers use ID and CLASS names for the same element. For example :
<body id ="wrapper" class ="anything">
Please help?
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Developers use ID if they have to perform some JavaScript or Dynamic function on the DIV where as they use class to style to item.
Hope this clears.. -
It is also useful if you want to modify an element using CSS for a particular page only.
For example, if on a particular page you would like the element to be a different colour to all the other pages, you can simply add:
.anything {color:red;}
Rather than having to create a separate element, such as
<body id="wrapper-newcolour"> -
- CommentAuthorCMPCreations
- CommentTimeAug 19th 2009
designers shouldn't be doing markup or css...they're designers :)
but like others have stated, it is normally to further target a node on a given page...though...it doesn't really make much sense to assign the <body> node an id as it's the only node of its kind on any html document. -
- CommentAuthordmitryseliv
- CommentTimeAug 20th 2009
Programmers seems have tendency to overthink and overcomplicate things
creating unncessary classes and nested containers. I personally like to keep things simple.
The only case I would use <body id="foo"> it's to overwrite some existing style properties based per page.
For instance, you already build the template structure and all major layout styling properties are done but you need an extra page which has few own tweaks so you can add new divs etc or you can add unique id to body of the document then overwrite style properties but it really depends on individual situation.
Cheers, DS
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