Mark, That is an excellent example!
I'd use ID whenever the item is unique on a page - as it would have to be
here. ID's have more specificity than classes and that may be needed at some
point when/if there is a conflict.
2cents
Russ
>
> Image I have a picture that appears once on lots of pages so I give it:
>
> <img id="galah" src...>
>
> with the style:
>
> img#galah { border:0; }
>
> But on one page I want to give it more emphasis - I decide that a big pink
> border will be perfect - how do I do this? Well on the page in question I
> put a class or id on the body:
>
> <body class="birdsOfAustralia">
>
> and add this into my css:
>
> body.birdsOfAustralia img#galah { border: 50px solid pink; }
>
> I've take this to such extremes that on sites where every page has a unique
> identifier I chuck that in the body tag on every page as either a class or
> id (any thoughts on which?). This just makes it super simple to write in
> that odd exception, without hacking at the content itself.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
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