Re: FN-FORUM: CSS issues in IE

date posted 31st January 2005 22:58

In freelance.forum, Jonathan Clarke [EMAIL REMOVED] (Jonathan
Clarke) wrote in [EMAIL REMOVED]

> just out of interest how do decide when to use an ID or a Class?
>It seems to me they do essentially the same thing.

An ID is used when the style is specific to one item on the page- a class
is a reusable style. You could make everything a class, and sometimes have
only one instance of the class. Having an ID is useful, because you can
change attributes of the style at runtime.
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