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can you assign 2 classes to a single html element

I want to style html elements in CSS using class, not id. and I need to assign 2 classes to 1 element.
I want one mother class e.g.’animal’ and smaller classes e.g. ‘mammal’ & ‘reptile’.

I could just style every element in the smaller classes individually with id’s but I’m working on a big project and that would take forever. is there a way to assign two classes to 1 element?

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    Yes, you can easily give multiple classes to a single element, just separate them by a space.
    For example:

    <div class="animal mammal reptile">...</div>

    Now the above div has 3 classes, animal, mammal and reptile. And now you can target each just like you’d target a single class.

    .animal {
  /* styles for animal */
}

.mammal {
  /* styles for mammal */
}

.reptile {
  /* styles for reptile */
}
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    You can add a list of classes to an element, commonly delimited with a space.

    But that is not all. A class="..." definition in a HTML tag is also an attribute, so you can use the attribute selector to query that definition for specific values. For example:

    /* CSS */
[class="myClass"] { ... }
[class^="my"]     { ... } /* all classes starting with ... */
[class*="Cl"]     { ... } /* all classes containing    ... */
[class$="ass"]    { ... } /* all classes ending with   ... */

[class*="my"][class*="ss"] { ... } /* all classes containing ... and ... */

    And so on, limitless posibilities. Check out more attribute selectors on this page CSS Selector Reference.

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