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Real World XML
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Real World XML

by Steven Holzner
January 2003
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1200 pages
23h 42m
English
Peachpit Press
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Selecting by ID

Another way of selecting elements is by their ID values, which you set with an ID attribute. To create a selector that targets elements with a certain ID, you use the syntax ELEMENT_NAME#ID_VALUE. For example, here's how I create a rule for <P> elements with the ID value of "TOP":

Listing . ch09_10.css
 
TITLE {display: block; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold;
text-align: center; text-decoration: underline}
AUTHOR {display: block; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;
text-align: center}
SECTION {display: block; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;
text-align: center; font-style: italic}
P {display: block; margin-top: 10}
P#TOP {display: block; margin-top: 30}
				

To give an element the ID "TOP", I can add an ID attribute like this, ...

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