- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 17:41:18 -0400
- To: "Galarneau, Neil" <ngalarneau@concord6.powersoft.com>, "'www-style'" <www-style@w3.org>
At 04:50 PM 10/7/96 PDT, Galarneau, Neil wrote: >IDs and Classes seem almost identical to me. > >In fact, it seems that IDs are just Classes that can only be used in the >body once. > >Is that true? You could think of it that way. But if one can be used many times and the other only once, I wouldn't say that they are almost identical. =) Classes are internal names for "classes" or "types" of elements. An ID is a name for a particular element. If you think about it in a certain way, classes actually have more in common with element names (i.e. P, H1, DL) than with IDs in that they describe a certain kind of data, whereas IDs name a particular data element. Paul Prescod
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