Title: Please namespace CSS classes
Last modified: April 19, 2019

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# Please namespace CSS classes

 *  [jqz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jqz/)
 * (@jqz)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-namespace-css-classes/)
 * The use of simple `grid` and `list` CSS classes may (and do) cause conflict with
   themes. I suggest prefixing with some characters unique to your plugin e.g. `
   xyz-grid`, `xyz-list`. I know the themes are not blameless either, but there 
   is only one theme and there can be many plugins, so it’s more important for plugins
   not to pollute the namespace.
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