Hi Georg, that was an excellent response! Saving this one to the archives.
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
> The one that works best - in each case :-)
Kinda what I was thinking, but wanted to hear it from the pros.
> I do add classes to ID'ed elements for certain things, but I find it
> easier to maintain projects where the mix of ID and classes is at a minimum.
Sounds good to me. I do prefer simplicity if at all possible.
> Your example might even end up without ID and/or class...
> body div {float: left; /* plus other styles */ }
> body div div {float: none; /* plus other styles */ }
> ...which saves a lot of bytes on multipage sites, but it depends on the
> layout if it'll work.
Ahhhh, did not even think about that approach. Saving bytes sounds good
to me, very nice. :)
> That often means that I style through "compacted one-liners" that are
> hard to read by humans but quicker to load and easy to execute by software.
> It also means that I leave out ID and classes where I can - like in the
> example above, and target elements "down the chain".
Hmmm, interesting... I never really looked at it like that. Something
for me to start thinking about doing with my own code. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the great feedback Georg, very informative. :)
Have a great day/night. :D
Cheers,
Micky
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