what does P, .P, and #P in CSS mean?

Question

computer assignment, can anyone tell me where to get some more info?

Answer 1

what you are using is called selectors.



P is a selector, in CSS any style you apply to this will effect all "P" tags. use this when you want to apply styles to all of a select tag.



P {

font-family: "Times new Roman";

}



.P is a class selector. Ignore the above comment saying using this is not a good idea. This is used to decipher which specific element you would like to apply the style to. For example you have 100 P tags on your page. you want to change one of the specific ones. you can set the class name for one then just target that specific element.

This is a P statement

This will not be effected

or



P.P{

color: pink;

}



lastly #P is a id selector. use it to identify names on the page with the 'id' key word. Example:

then in the css you can



P#P {

text-decoration: underline;

}



or



#P {

font-weight: bold;

}





these are basically ways you refer and select elements on the page to be styled. They are quite useful and wise to use them.

Answer 2

P is the tag for a paragraph. So, in your stylesheet, when you put p { text-align: center; }, for example, then it will make text that are in paragraphs or have the

tags around it align center.



Anything in a stylesheet that has a period before it is a class. If you make a class called "cheeseburger" and the tags in the HTML look something like

, then in the stylesheet, you have to put .cheeseburger { [some styling goes here] }. All classes are periods before them in the stylesheet.



The same thing that applies to classes applies to IDs, ex:

and in the stylesheet it will be #hamburger { [some styling goes here] }. IDs have hashtags before them in the stylesheet. The difference between a class and an ID is that classes can be used multiple times on an HTML page and IDs should only be used once.



I hope that helped; I know that it's difficult to understand but soon you'll get it!

Answer 3

It means someone doesn't know how to use CSS. "p" is considered a keyword for paragraph tag so all you would need for CSS is the letter "p":



p {

font-family: arial;

font-size: 1em;

}



The use of "p" as a class (.p) is not a good idea. Nor is the use of "p" as an ID (#p).



CSS Tutorials:



http://www.handycss.com/

http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

http://www.csstutorial.net/

Dynamic Drive CSS Library: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/



http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm

http://htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/css/

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/character_famsupp_193.html



Ron

Answer 4

P = tag p

.P = a class called P



#P = an ID of a object or a tag for example

Answer 5

When playing CS:S, people will often use taunts and those taunts seem to be variants of the smiley face ":P" which is them sticking their tongue out at you. Don't be such a counter-strike nub and you wont see that anymore.

Answer 6

Hi.



"p" is the paragraph selector which refers to all paragraphs in HTML file like:

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This is a paragraph

(in HTML)



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and you refer to it in CSS like this:

p {

color: red;

}(CSS)



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".p" is1. a class selector which refers to a maintained class selector in HTML like:

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this is used for a specific paragraph of your choice

(HTML)note: you don't insert the dot here.

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and you refer to it in CSS like this:

.p {

color: red;

font-weight: bold;

}(CSS it is rare you use a .p as a name for your selector, you shouldn't, you get confused)



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2. is again a class selector which is applied to specific HTML element (used alot) like:

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paragraph1

paragraph 2

paragraph 3

paragraph 4

(HTML)

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and you refer to it in CSS like this:



p.p {

font-style= bold;



}(CSS) this way just the paragraphs which has "p as class" get bold NOTE: the first one doesn't.



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"#p" is an id selector which refers to a maintained id selector in HTML like:

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your name or mine

this is an id selector which is very useful all the times

(HTML)

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and you refer to it in CSS like this:



#top {

color: blue;

background-color: green;

}(CSS)







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hope it helped.

have fun.