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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Hopefully this will help clarify (rather than adding more confusion ;) ) - You wouldn't generally nest CSS selectors with ID's - #thisid #thatid #theotherid { ... } Each ID can only appear once on each page, so the style attributes you give it won't usually need to be specified in regard to its parent element. However, there may be cases in dynamically generated pages, where something of the same ID will appear within different elements depending on which page it is loaded in, and for some reason may require different styling. The main reason you use such nesting would appear more like this - #nav ul li { ... } in which you would specify a different style for list items when they appear inside the #nav element. This is generally preferable (IMO) to setting a class for the li, as it retains more flexibility and interferes less with your mark-up. So you are more or less correct, Karl, but it's all in how you set it up. The idea is to keep your mark-up as clear as possible, which means using less class names on child elements - using the class or id of the parent element to define the styles of the elements within them. [url=http://in-dented.com/sigs.html][img]http://in-dented.com/sigs/knot_sig_32.gif[/img][/url] Loading...
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