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## Class naming
## CSS selectors
Only use classes for CSS selectors, *never IDs* as they intoduce unwated speficity to the cascade. It takes 255 chained css class selectors to override a single ID, so using an ID as a css selector is like firing the first nuke; you begin a specifity war that can only escalate, with terrible consequence.
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A couple spelling errors here... introduce, unwanted, specificity


To put it another way; Don't use a Sith Lord when just two Storm Troopers will suffice: [CSS Specifity Wars](http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_wars.html)

### Class naming convention
Use dashes to create compound class names:

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