ALL, I had met the phrase “make sense” many times, But I still can't understand its meaning and usage even if I had review it in some online dictionary many times, And I still be confused about it every time when I came across it in some read. Here is a example, Please review it .
In fact, the order of selectors in your CSS does play a role and the
"further down" one does in fact win when the specificity values are
exactly the same. For example:.favorite { color: red; } .favorite { color: black; }The color will be black… but I digress.
The point here is you want to be as specific as it makes sense to be
every chance you get. Even with the simple example presented above, it
will become obvious to you eventually that simply using a class name
to target that "favorite drink" isn't going to cut it, or won't be
very safe even if it did work. It would have been smart to use this:
Could you help me? Anyway, I don't know if the title is right way to use it , please correct me if it is wrong.thanks.
Best Answer
This is an interesting question, because the first thought is to explain it to you a terms of programming methodology. But your question is about the language used in the statement:
The point here is you want to be as specific as it makes sense to be every chance you get.
Let me give some context of my own, first:
Cascading Style Sheets allow you to define styles in a hierarchical manner, relying on the higher levels to define a set of styles that apply to a broad range of rendered elements. For instance, you may specify overall font styles, including font type, font color, and font height, as examples.
At the lower levels in the style sheet definitions, you may modify the styles for more specific elements. So you may want to change the font weight for an element, to emphasize a word, for example.
What your sentence is telling you is that you do not need to respecify all of the other details. Only specify the style element that is needed. This is what would make sense. This is all that is necessary. To do otherwise would (or may) create additional work, it would be unnecessary (obviously), and may even lead to other unexpected problems. To specify elements that have been adequately defined at the higher level would not make sense. There is no reason to specify style elements that are already specified the way you want them to be. (But you should respecify those that need to be changed.)
So to make sense in this case means to be reasonable or logical.
The point being made is that you should only be as specific as it reasonable (or logical) to be. Do this every chance you get.