Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

Long identifier and class names

The longer your strings, the larger your files. It's a no-brainer. As such, long identifier and class names naturally increase the size of your web page. Of course, extremely short class or identifier names tend to lack meaning and therefore will make it more difficult (if not impossible) to maintain your page. As such, one should strive for an ideal balance between length and expressiveness (we will be covering a handy little tool that will provide you with the benefits of both later on in this chapter). Of course, even better than shortening identifiers is removing them altogether. One handy technique of removing these is to use hierarchical selection. Take our events pagination code. For example, we are ...