Is there a downfall to applying multiple classes to an element, like the one
> above? How does it affect UAs?
Just thought I'd offer an alternate viewpoint to the "argh! no!" responses
so far.
Like most web dev questions there's a contextual aspect to the question.
There's a time and a place to us
Yea, I would never consider allowing it on any project I am working on
either...I was actually asking because I have heard that it could be done,
but never really understood (maybe, come to think of it, heard) what the
downfalls were. I do, now, thanks to you and Russ Weakley.
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Brett P.
On Tue
In my own personal opinion, if you get into the situation where you want
to use a selector like:
.class1.class2 { stuff }
then it is time to do a little re-factoring. The whole point of allowing
an element to have two or more classes is so that each class remains
semantically logical. As you p
Hey Brett,
There are many ways to do what you need - so you may not need to use a
multiple class selector at all.
OPTION 1
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Using the html example you sent in a previous email, you could target
instances of content using descendant selectors based on the parent classes
alone - w
So, where:
what I was wondering (I should have worded better, sorry) was if I took:
.information
{
background-color: #FFF;
color: #000;
}
/* This below, will apply only to the paragraph with the more-styles class
applied to it */
.more-styles
{
color: #333;
}
and applied to both of those
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Brett Patterson <
inspiron.patters...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note the space in the second paragraph class attribute...from what I have
> heard this allows multiple classes to be applied to a single element. Is
> there a downfall to applying multiple classes to an elem
Hey all, a quick question, consider the following code:
Content goes here on line 1
Content goes here on line 2
Note the space in the second paragraph class attribute...from what I have
heard this allows multiple classes to be applied to a single element. Is
there a downfall to applying mult
