Ids are rarely used in webapp because most people are using a component based approach. By nature they can be instantiated multiple times so you can only use cl

Ids are rarely used in webapp because most people are using a component based approach. By nature they can be instantiated multiple times so you can only use classes. The basic approach is to only use selectors with a single class name and nothing else. No child selector or anything. Then you use a naming convention for class names. The most popular is called BEM (for Block/Element/Modifier). Sass can help you write BEM class names: https://medium.com/@andrew_barnes/bem-and-sass-a-perfect-match-5e48d9bc3894 https://medium.com/@andrew_barnes/bem-and-sass-a-perfect-mat... You might use other libraries. Those work by generating class names for you and applying those classes at the right place. There is a whole set of possibilities here: css-modules, styled-component, jss, etc. Some of those libraries use a separate file for writing the css rules (like css modules). Some other libraries ask you to write those rules next to your react/angular/whatever component (styled-component/jss). Those are often called css-in-js. All of this is only useful when you are making a webapp.