Re: [WSG] CSS Rules - Naming Conventions

[Chris Stratford]

I use:

id="container"
id="header"
id="navigation"
id="content"
id="footer"
id="clear"

as basic layout styling IDs

Chris Stratford
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Peter Ottery wrote:

yeah I'm known to use

id="wrap"
id="masthead"
id="nav"
id="sidebar"
id="footer" etc etc

all the time trying to keep the names non-specific to the layout (like id="lefthandnav") cause when/if it changes later to a horizontal nav across the top i'd feel a bit silly :)

having a standard set is particularly handy if you have a bunch of sites that use the same convention. makes for easier changes later...

i'd be interested to hear if there were problems with hyphens in names? i use them  little. i knew underscores were no good, and i think i remember reading somewhere that names that *started* with a number were also problematic.. all ears if someone has some conclusive info..

cheers,
pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Stumpy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 4:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WSG] CSS Rules - Naming Conventions

Just wondering what peoples thoughts/methods are when
naming your DIV's, ID's, etc. I vaguely remember IE4
not supporting underscores or hyphens, and therefore
use camel case, but I'm wondering if people use
various standard names like container, body, header,
footer, etc...

Cheers,
Craig

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