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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Structure the Image Gallery

Posted by john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

how many #id="*******" per page?

I have heard that there can only be one #id="" per page. But I saw someone do a whole bunch on one page. I tried it and it seemed to work fine. is this a matter of preference? or is there really only supposed to be one per page (for some clandestine reason).

2 Answers

Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points
Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points

Hi John,

The 'id' property can be used multiple times in a page, but its value should be unique. So this would be fine:

  <div id="container">
    <div id="funFacts">
    </div>
  </div>

But multiple 'id="container' in the same page is bad practice and shouldn't be done. The main thing I use an 'id' for is to target code, if you have multiple of the same 'id' I believe it selects the first one every time.

If you want to share styles, you can use 'class' which can be repeated multiple times per page.

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi John,

You can have multiple id per page as long each one is unique. If you have more than one id with the same value, the first one will be the one used by the anchor.