What is the purpose of the hash?

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The hash is an id selector. So, somewhere in the body there is an id name of "load" like so:

<div id='load'>

Where as the dot is a class selector, and references an element with a class name of "loading" like so:

<div class="loading">

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In CSS you can identify what a style applies to in 3 ways (from a basic level):

1. Tag name: Type just the letters of the tag the style applies to:
    TD{
       background-color: #FF0000;
    }

2. Class name. Identify the tag's class that the style applies to. For this you need to specify the class in the element's markup (<TD class="RedBG">):
    .RedBG{
       background-color: #FF0000;
    }

3. Object ID. Identifies a specific element by ID to which the style applies. For this you specify the tags ID attribute (<span id="PageHeader">):
    #PageHeader{
       font-size: 36px;
       color: #00FF00;
    }
Usually, you would have only one element with that ID on the page otherwise you'd have a ID conflict that could cause other problems.

You can combine style identifiers to be more specific:

TABLE#MasterLayout{}
TD.Header{}

and chain them together to create complex styles with simple style syntax:

TABLE#MasterLayout TD.Header{}

In this case, the "TD.Header" style will be different for TD tags with the "Header" class when they exist under a table with the "MasterLayout" ID.

-Peter

excellent, thank you both

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In the HTML document, you can give a particular id to an HTML element. For example, you have many <h2> on your page. You want to style one particular <h2> with red color when someone clicks a button on the page. This effect is achieved using JavaScript.
To get this effect, you have to give an ID to identify the particular <h2>. you can give an id like redheading.

You can call this particular <h2> in CSS and JavaScript, using this ID.

To do that you have to use the # symbol followed by the id name. This targets the <h2> with that ID.

Hope this answer helps.


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