FAQ: Learn CSS Selectors Visual Rules - CSS Setup Selectors - Intro to CSS

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Intro to CSS” exercise in Codecademy’s CSS lessons.

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How does CSS know which HTML to style? I couldn’t find anything mentioning index.html in style.css.

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In this example each section was assigned two classes, one common “container” and one unique name. For the unique names (ie. nav, header, jumbotron) why weren’t id’s used instead of classes?