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Apply Styles with Classes .......................................

2 Within a tag to which you

want to apply the style, type

class=”?”, replacing?

with a class name.

1 In your editor, open a page

that contains an embedded

style sheet.

Apply Styles with Classes

W

hen you apply styles by using an element selector, the style affects every instance of that element

on the page. Often, you want to target the style only at a few instances of the element, which can

be done with a class selector and attribute. The class selector is used in your CSS to create a generic set

of rules, whereas the matching class attribute is added to your HTML to specify to which tag the class’

rules should be applied. In your CSS, the class name must begin with a period, but the period is not

used in the attribute in HTML.

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