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John Balladares
Courses Plus Student 9,828 PointsCommon Practice
Is it common practice to add ID's and Classes to html after laying out the general layout? Or is it more conventional to add them from the beginning?
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Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsFor common things that you do like overall wrapper, header, nav, footer, you'll probably put those id's/class's in as you write that markup because you know in advance that you'll need them. For other items, you may not realize until later on that you needed to use a class/id and so you'll go back in and add it.
John Balladares
Courses Plus Student 9,828 PointsThanks Jason, much appreciated!