Posted by Barbara de Zoete on 04/16/06 16:05

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:58:54 +0200, Martin Jay <martin@spam-free.org.uk>
wrote:

>> As I'm just learning CSS I'm still learning all the tags. By the way,
>> when
>> you say elements are these things like "footer, header, etc?"
>
> Yes. Something like:
>
> .footer{
> border: 1px Red Solid;
> }

[ ... ]

> You can also do the same with HTML tags. For example:
>
> p{
> border: 1px Red Solid;
> }
>

You're confusing elements with which you markup a page, and selectors you
use in your stylesheets. [.footer] Is a selector. A class selector to be
more specific, as #footer would be a selector for an id. p Is just a
selector, in this case to make the styles applicable on all parageraph
elements in a html page. Those paragraph elements you mark up with tags
like <p>In here you can put the text for a paragraph.</p>.

Selectors, elements, tags. Different things and because creating pages and
layout quite technical, it is a good thing to use these names correctly.


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