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wdgjunkie
post May 30 2018, 11:37 AM
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Hello there,

I'm fairly new to programming, so please excuse my ignorance. As I'm perusing different websites studying the different html/css syntax, I am coming across the typical "container," "header," etc. classes which I am understanding, but I am also finding some very ornate, long-winded class names such as:

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<body class="home blog tm-isblog wp-home wp-front_page" data-gr-c-s-loaded="true">


or

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<div class="uk-navbar-content uk-navbar-center uk-visible-small">


or

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<section class="tm-top-a uk-grid tm-grid-block" data-uk-grid-match="{target:'> div > .uk-panel'}">



I am just curious as to why a developer would choose to name a class to such a degree instead of something much simpler. Could someone help me understand the reasoning behind this, as well as how I am supposed to know how to name the class when a name this descriptive is in order?

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Christian J
post May 31 2018, 02:19 PM
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Another thing to watch out for is name collisions, especially if you're a template designer or one of the poor souls blindly embedding every third-party resource they've ever heard of. mellow.gif

To avoid collisions it might be good to use prefixes (and hope nobody else is using the same one as you).
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wdgjunkie   Why are there some really long class names?   May 30 2018, 11:37 AM
pandy   They could be stupid. Or they don't think. Or ...   May 30 2018, 02:37 PM
wdgjunkie   They could be stupid. Or they don't think. Or...   May 30 2018, 03:19 PM
pandy   I don't know if I'm right. I'm just gu...   May 31 2018, 01:33 PM
Christian J   Another thing to watch out for is name collisions,...   May 31 2018, 02:19 PM

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