Which of the following characters designates a class in CSS?

Which of the following characters designates a class in CSS?

• #
• !
• .
• ~ 

 

EXPLANATION

The .class selector selects elements with a specific class attribute.  To select elements with a specific class, write a period (.) character, followed by the name of the class.

Definition and Usage

The .class selector selects elements with a specific class attribute.

To select elements with a specific class, write a period (.) character, followed by the name of the class.

You can also specify that only specific HTML elements should be affected by a class. To do this, start with the element name, then write the period (.) character, followed by the name of the class (look at Example 1 below).

HTML elements can also refer to more than one class (look at Example 2 below).