Glossary term
What is Class?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Class" means: A name you add to HTML elements so CSS can style just those elements. It is taught in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website and Java for Complete Beginners. Related terms include Custom property, Cascade, Viewport and Contrast ratio. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Class?
A name you add to HTML elements so CSS can style just those elements. (From HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Class mean in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website?
A name you add to HTML elements so CSS can style just those elements.
What does Class mean in Java for Complete Beginners?
A blueprint that says what facts a thing has and what it can do.
Where is Class taught?
Class is defined in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website and Java for Complete Beginners.
HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First WebsiteJava for Complete Beginners
Which lessons cover Class?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website, lesson 3.3: Classes and the cascade
- Java for Complete Beginners, lesson 1.2: The Parts of a Program and How to Read Errors
- Java for Complete Beginners, lesson 4.1: Classes and Objects: Your Own Types
- Java for Complete Beginners, lesson 5.1: Inheritance: A Class That Builds on Another
- Java for Complete Beginners, lesson 5.2: Interfaces and Polymorphism
Which terms are related to Class?
Next to Class in the course glossaries: Custom property, Cascade, Viewport, Contrast ratio, Landmark, Box model, Alt text, Padding, HashMap and Object.
Custom propertyCascadeViewportContrast ratioLandmarkBox modelAlt textPaddingHashMapObject
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Class?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website: No coding experience is needed.
- Java for Complete Beginners: No programming experience is needed.