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This chapter is from the book
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Naming Elements
You can give your (X)HTML elements either a unique name or one that identifies them as belonging to a particular class. You can then apply styles to all elements with a given name.
To name unique elements:
Within the opening tag of the element, type id="name", where name uniquely identifies the element.
To name groups of elements:
Within the opening tag of the element, type class="name", where name is the identifying name of the class.
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Figure 3.14 Add an id attribute to a unique element in order to identify it for later formatting or links. Add a class attribute to a group of elements to be able to format them all in one fell swoop.
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Figure 3.15 The id and class attributes do not by themselves modify an element's appearance. They must be combined with CSS formatting to show their full strength (as described in Chapters 10 and 11).