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36 Cards in this Set
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What is the largest building block of a style sheet?
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A rule
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* CSS stands for
* Styles define how to display * Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem * External Style Sheets can save you a lot of work * External Style Sheets are stored in * Multiple style definitions will cascade into one |
Cascading Style Sheets
HTML elements CSS files |
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The CSS syntax is made up of three parts:
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a selector, a property and a value:
selector {property: value} |
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What are the types of elements that a selector can be applied to?
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HTML elements
Elements with a class Elements with an ID |
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Whend do you need quotes around a value?
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Should all the time but is required when you have multiple words
p {font-family: "sans serif"} |
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How can you group multiple selectors?
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h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6
{ color: green } |
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To apply more than one class per given element, the syntax is:
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<p class="class1 class2">
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What is an example of an element with a class?
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<p class="content">
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The selector is normally the HTML element/tag you wish to define, the property is the attribute you wish to change, and each property can take a value. The property and value are separated by a ____ and surrounded by
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Colon
Curly Braces |
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What is an example of an element with an ID?
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<p ID="warning1">
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You can also omit the tag name in the selector to define a style that will be used by all HTML elements that have a certain class. In the example below, all HTML elements with class="center" will be center-aligned: What would this look like
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.center {text-align: center}
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H1 {font-size: 1.8em;} what is "font-size"? |
A property
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You can also define styles for HTML elements with the id selector. The id selector is defined as a
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#idName
ex: #green {color: green} |
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H1 {font-size: 1.8em;} what is "1.8em"? |
The value of the property
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A CSS comment begins with
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/* This is a comment */
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When should you use a semicolon?
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At the end of every value in a rule
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Write tag to link a css to an html page, including where it belongs in the page. The file may be called mystyle
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<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css" /> </head |
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How would you group body, paragraph, and the largest heading and give them all the color of 000088?
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body, p, h1 {color: #000088;}
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What are the two types of elements?
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Blocklevel and inline
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What is a blocklevel element?
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Begins a new line
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What is an inline element?
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One that doesn't force a line break
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What's the difference between <div> and <span>?
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<div> is blocklevel, <span> is inline
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Class and ID attributes can be used with what HTML elements?
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All of them
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What's the difference between class and ID attributes?
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Class can be used multiple times, ID only once.
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What precedes a class?
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A dot
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What precedes an ID?
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#
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What do CSS1 specifications prohibit in naming classes and IDs?
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Can't start with a number
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How can Javascript interfere with classes and IDs?
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If a class or ID's name is the same as a reserved word in Javascript, it may interfere.
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To what elements may a class apply?
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<body>, <p>, <div>, <span>
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Which has more weight, class or ID?
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ID
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How many values may a class have?
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Any number.
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How many values may an ID have?
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One.
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What should be avoided in class and ID names?
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Underscores.
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If you want small, red type for minor notes, what is preferable to naming the class smallRed?
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minorNote
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What are pseudo-classes used for?
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To change the appearance of links.
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What does a pseudo-element do?
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Sets the style for part of an element, like a first letter or first line
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