I'm a front-end developer and I've been reading about the performance of CSS selectors and I wanted to ask you about a practice I use a lot in my projects to reuse styles "see attachment 1"
and I wanted to know:
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of combining multiple class selectors
"see attachment 2"
to style an HTML element? - Does combining multiple class selectors affect the performance of a web page?
- How do browsers interpret this combination? Does it take more time or effort to recognize this pattern; remembering that browsers read selectors from right to left?
It should be noted that "attachment 1"
is how I would have my CSS style sheet, however .btn.style1
and .btn.style2
do not have any properties declared as they are separate "see attachment 3"
.
/* Attachment 1 (Omit excessive use of </ div>.) */
<div class="mainHeader">
<div class="btn style1">Lorem ipsum A</div>
<div class="btn style2">Lorem ipsum B</div>
</div>
/* Attachment 2 */
.mainHeader {
[property]: [value];
}
.btn.style1 {
[property]: [value];
}
.btn.style2 {
[property]: [value];
}
Note: In my CSS style sheet I would not declare the following selectors:
/* Attachment 3 */
.btn {
[No properties]
}
.style1 {
[No properties]
}
.style2 {
[No properties]
}