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

Krishnendu Banerjee
Krishnendu Banerjee
1,005 Points

Why a fullstop??

why did the teacher use a fullstop while writing social-icon in main.css

1 Answer

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

Nick used a period in front of social-icon because social-icon is a class. Class selectors in CSS begin with a period and ID selectors begin with a hash (#).