CSS-P ... ID tags and Class tags?

Can anyone please tell me what the difference is between a ID tag and a class
tag? And why and when you should be using them?

As i understand it, a class tag is identified in the css with:
..nameofclass

and an ID is identified in the css with #nameofid


is this right? And why would you use one instead of the other?

Hope someone can help!

limeybloke wrote:

As i understand it, a class tag is identified in the css with:
.nameofclass.and an ID is identified in the css with #nameofid is this right?

Yes.



And why would you use one instead of the other?


a class can be used multiple times on your page to attach to any amount
of elements/containers such a <table> <div> <p> <a> tags etc.

An id can only be used once. There should be no repetion of this on your
page.

limeybloke typed:

Can anyone please tell me what the difference is between a ID tag and
a class tag? And why and when you should be using them?

As i understand it, a class tag is identified in the css with:
.nameofclass

and an ID is identified in the css with #nameofid


is this right? And why would you use one instead of the other?

Hope someone can help!

See if this helps explain things a bit better than I could in a couple of
sentences

http://www.mako4css.com/BasClass.htm


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Can anyone please tell me what the difference is between a ID tag and a class
tag?

I can tell you what they have in common: Both don't exist! Surprised?

ID and class are _attributes_. A tag is something like <p>, <ul>, <kbd>
etc. (start tags) or </em>, </abbr>, </li> etc. (end tags).

That's an important difference, especially if you talk about things like
the title-element, the title-attribute or the <title>-tag.

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