h1 or .h1

[PeterL]

Looking through an old style sheet I see the hx tags have a duplicate with a
"." before them.

For the life of me I don't recall why there are two types and a search
through Google doesn't throw any light.

Any theories appreciated. Thanks

PeterL

 

[Matthias Gutfeldt]

Looking through an old style sheet I see the hx tags have a duplicate with a
"." before them.

For the life of me I don't recall why there are two types and a search
through Google doesn't throw any light.

h1 is a type selector, it matches every h1 element.

..h1 is a class selector, it matches every element with the class h1, so
it would match <p class="h1"> as well as <span class="h1"> and (of
course) <h1 class="h1">.

Any theories appreciated.

You must have had some reason. Or perhaps it was the booze.


Matthias

 

[brucie]

Looking through an old style sheet I see the hx tags have a duplicate with a
"." before them.

h1{... } style for the <h1> element
..h1{... } style for any element that has the class of h1.
e.g. <p class="h1">. its a really dumb name for a class.

 

[Greg Schmidt]

h1{... } style for the <h1> element
.h1{... } style for any element that has the class of h1.
e.g. <p class="h1">. its a really dumb name for a class.

I have seen pages where people do their headings this way. Actually,
more likely to be <span class="h1">. You are right that it is really
dumb. Still, it makes me happy since, all else being equal, their pages
will end up ranked below mine by Google.

 

[PeterL]

h1{... } style for the <h1> element
.h1{... } style for any element that has the class of h1.
e.g. <p class="h1">. its a really dumb name for a class.

Many thanks to all for the pointers folks, Not sure I completely understand
but I'll study the specs more.

PeterL

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