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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Polish the Navigation and Footer

scott baldwin
scott baldwin
807 Points
Posted by scott baldwin
scott baldwin
807 Points

Class vs ID

Why was a class used rather than an ID to re size the social media icons. Is there a benefit?

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Haven't done the lesson you are referring to, but since you said "social media icons" as in plural its probably best to use a class since you are affecting/resizing a group of objects. ID would be good if you wanted to reference one specific item because each item can only have a unique ID, so if you have 3 social media icons you would end up having to write the same CSS for three separate items instead of just writing it all in one class.

scott baldwin
scott baldwin
807 Points
scott baldwin
scott baldwin
807 Points

Thanks! That cleared up things.