tag#id vs #id

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I was wondering why in some cases just the #id is used, but in some other cases tag#id is used. It makes sense to me for classes since you can have multiple classes in a page, but not for ids. It’s probably a beginner’s question, but that’s what I am. :D

To take it further, sometimes I see things like this:
body#pagewrap ul#nav li.contact a

Why not start that from the li or ul if needed?

These things are still kinda confusing for me, but I’m getting there in my CSS journey.

Thanks!

[Historical Forums User]

Ok, that makes total sense. It’s all about the specificity. I think it was just throwing me off sometimes seeing declarations with a bunch of tags, and looking over their whole document they didn’t need to go that far. Maybe they’re being specific for future changes, who knows.

Thanks for the clarification. :thumbsup:

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