This is an example of a CSS class. The same class can be assigned to any number of elements. You can assign more than one class to an element by seperating the classes by a space. If you leave out all of the element names and just use a period followed by a classname (see .wordspacing class above) then the rule will apply to all members of the class.
This is an example of the p tag being defined by a class equal to important
This paragraph is in typewriter text
I love you so much I have to use italics
This is an example of an element that uses more than one class. (see code example below)