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CSS: The Basics - ID's and Classes

Author : Eric McArdle

Css

Cascading Style Sheets

Two types of style sheets: Internal and External

Internal - You insert your style code right into your html code.
These stylesheets should only be used if you are intending to
create a specific page with a specific style. If you want to be
able to make global changes to your website using only one style
sheet, you have to use....

External Stylesheets - Instead of putting all the style code
into your html code, you can create a single document with your
css code and link to it within your webpages code. It would look
something like this

Webpage title< itle> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/css" target=\"bago\">http://www.yourdomain.com/css</a>"> </head> If you decide to use an internal stylesheet, you have to put your css style wihin the following tags: <style type="text/css"> </style> All css or links to the external stylesheets have to go in between the <head> tags Now about Css Classes vs. ID's The one major difference between a class and an id is that classes can be used multiple times within the same page while an Id can only be used once per page. Example: ID - The global navigation of your site, or a navigation bar. A footer, header, etc. Only items that appear in only one place per page. Class - Anything that you would use multiple times in your page, such as titles, subtitles, headlines, and the like. Creating ID 's To create an Id in your css, you would start with the number sign (#) and then your label of the id. Here's an example #navigation { float:left; } To insert the id in your html, you would do something like this <div id="navigation"> </div> You can also insert an id within another one like this <div id="navigation"> <div id="left"> </div> </div> Remember to close the id's in order. Now, onto css classes. Creating Classes To create a class in your css, use this .subtitle { color: #000000; } To insert the class into your html, do this Now, you can use the same class repeatedly in the same page unlike Id's. I also want to tell you something about link attributes. You should always keep them in this order: a { color: #006699; text-decoration: none; font-size: 100%; } a:link { color: #006699; text-decoration: none; } a:visited { color: #006699; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #0000FF; text-decoration: underline; } a:active { color: #FF0000 } Of course, you can change the colors and text-decorations. This is just something I cut out of my code! Okay, these are the basics. What I highly recommend is to go and download Topstyle Lite by going here: <a href="http://www.bradsoft.com" target=\"bago\">http://www.bradsoft.com</a> opstyle slite/index.asp It's free and is a very helpful css editor. It not only color codes and organizes your code, but it provides you with tons of attributes that you can add to your class and id elements with just a click. They also provide a screen at the bottom to view your css code as you create it. Very useful for a free edition and I'm looking to buy the pro version soon. Now, this was just a very very brief explanation of the vital elements needed when structuring your css. 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