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Nov 3rd / Saturday / '07
Putting an ID on your body allows you to create CSS properties that are unique to that page. For instance, you may want your h2 tags to look different on the homepage. In your CSS you can write: #home h2 {} to accomplish this and not affect h2 tags elsewhere.
what beautiful HTML code looks like | i always do this! and i have also wondered if it was good practice to do so, it just seemed like the most intelligent way to target page-specific elements.