what i learn't today

[wyrd_fish]

what i learnt today

in HTML 4.1 (strict) each id* should only be used once... crazy...

this means that you'd have to have the same thing loads of times, if you have simmilar / the same div's your style sheets must be really repetertive

* <div id="id">moo</div>

 

[fatbusinessman]

Seems to me you're misusing the id attribute. Its purpose is to uniquely identify a particular element.

If you want a load of elements to look the same, you'd want to use the class attribute. Works in much the same way, but it's referenced as element.class instead of element#id in the stylesheet, and you can have loads of elements of the same class.

 

[wyrd_fish]

I thought class was only used for formatting.

this being a layout and all


ah well

 

[fatbusinessman]

That's all layout is, really - just a type of formatting which relates to position as well as appearance...

 

[L_Plates]

in HTML 4.1 (strict) each id* should only be used once... crazy...

this means that you'd have to have the same thing loads of times, if you have simmilar / the same div's your style sheets must be really repetertive

* <div id="id">moo</div>

Indeed "id" is only meant to be used once as it takes priority over any other class. In the code

 

[wyrd_fish]

well thats what happens when you manage to teach your self basic CSS layouts from 1 tutorial and a attribute list.