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For some reason, based on the w3 documentation, I was under the impression that an id had an order of magnitude more specificity than a class. http://www.w3.or

• bingaling 14y ago
  I think it has _2_ (base 10) orders of magnitude more specificity. That's 10 times more specificity (than a single order)!
  • sirclueless 14y ago
    One might even say it has an order of magnitude more specificity than a single order.
• bodhi 14y ago
  From that spec: > Concatenating the four numbers a-b-c-d (in a number system with a large base) gives the specificity. So webkit is using 256 as "a large base". I only just read this spec a few months ago. For years I was under the impression that the spec was "1 point for an element, 5 for a class, 10 for an id", and the selector with the highest point value won...
  • Bootvis 14y ago
    Actually, me too. Where does this misconception come from?
    • RossM 14y ago
      Under the same impression too, I definitely remember reading this on a W3C advice/info blog (dark brown background, white and blue header - useful memory).