Comments on: Question: When is a CSS Class not a CSS Class? http://www.drunkenfist.com/304/2008/06/01/question-when-is-a-class-not-a-class/ Rob Larsen writes on web design and development, entertainment, sports and culture. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:36:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: rob http://www.drunkenfist.com/304/2008/06/01/question-when-is-a-class-not-a-class/comment-page-1/#comment-16601 rob Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:47:17 +0000 http://www.drunkenfist.com/304/?p=4589#comment-16601 I guess the question is, how often is one image inserted into a Wordpress post multiple times? I bet it doesn't happen all that often. In which case WP is coding for a problem that isn't all that much of a problem. Wordpress isn't the only one guilty of this, of course, Drupal used to (and might still) have unique class names for all of their menu items- <code> <li class="last menu-1-2-2"> </code> I guess the same argument could me made there, although I liked it even less in Drupal :) I guess the question is, how often is one image inserted into a Wordpress post multiple times? I bet it doesn't happen all that often. In which case WP is coding for a problem that isn't all that much of a problem.

Wordpress isn't the only one guilty of this, of course, Drupal used to (and might still) have unique class names for all of their menu items-


<li class="last menu-1-2-2">

I guess the same argument could me made there, although I liked it even less in Drupal :)

]]> By: Tom http://www.drunkenfist.com/304/2008/06/01/question-when-is-a-class-not-a-class/comment-page-1/#comment-16600 Tom Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:10:55 +0000 http://www.drunkenfist.com/304/?p=4589#comment-16600 The one thing I can think of is that they are anticipating that the image might be used more than once on a page. In which case, an ID wouldn't work. Logic could be inserted to decide if the element only appears once on a page or not and give an ID or class accordingly, but for simplicity's sake, it makes more sense to keep it as a class. The one thing I can think of is that they are anticipating that the image might be used more than once on a page. In which case, an ID wouldn't work.

Logic could be inserted to decide if the element only appears once on a page or not and give an ID or class accordingly, but for simplicity's sake, it makes more sense to keep it as a class.

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