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CSS CSS Transitions and Transforms Adding 3D Effects with CSS Activate 3D Space with perspective

Posted by nicolaspeterson
nicolaspeterson
8,569 Points

I'm confused by all the different container divs.

Looking at Guil's HTML, I'm a bit put off by all the different divs used in his layout. I understand these are just generic containers, but I'm confused as to how they interact with one another, if that makes sense. In the previous stage, his use of selectors completely lost me, and that was down to the containers being set by all the different div elements.

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Div elements don't really "interact" with each other other than they share a parent/child relationship just as any other element does in HTML.

You can use a div element to wrap multuple div elements inside it. Like this.

<div>

  <div></div> 
  <div></div>
  <div></div>

</div>

So now you have 1 element that is a parent for 3 other div elements.

Now you could select them with CSS by using a class for the container and an id element for each of the 3 child elements.

<div class="container">

  <div id ="one"></div> 
  <div id="two"></div>
  <div id="three"></div>

</div>

Does this help? If not, post your code and hopefully we can help out. :)

nicolaspeterson
nicolaspeterson
8,569 Points

This makes a little more sense, thanks. Just the organization of the practice workspace was a little confusing to me.