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CSS gives you lots of control over the look of your fonts, can you name 4 controllable font ptoperties...
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1) font-family:
2) font-weight: 3) font-size: 4) font-style: |
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How would you describe a font-family...
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a font-family is a set of fonts that share common characteristics
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What are the five font families for the Web...
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1) serif
2) sans-serif 3) monospace 4) cursive 5) fantasy note: by far the most common being serif + sans-serif |
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What should you bear in mind when choosing fonts to use in your Web pages...
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the fonts that visitors to your Web pages will see, depend upon the fonts they have installed on their own computers
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What's the best way to cope with a visitor not having your prefered font installed on their computer...
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in your font-family CSS property, specify some alternatives
e.g. font-family: Verdana, Helvetics, Arial, sans-serif; |
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When declaring a font to use for your Web page, what is special about the last font that you declare...
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it should be e generic font, like:
serif, or sans-serif in this way, if none of your prefered fonts are installed, an appropriate substitution can be made |
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How can font-sizes be specified...
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using the following parameters:
1) px 2) em 3) % 4) keywords (like... small, medium, large etc) |
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What does a font-size of "px" mean...
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this tells the browser how many pixels tall to make letters
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How are the font sizes "em" and "%" best known, and how do they operate...
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em and % are best known as relative font-sizes
that means, the size of the letters will be relative to the font size of the parent element |
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What's the big advantage of using font-sizes of em and %...
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they are relative sizes and they can make your pages more maintainable
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What's best practice for defining your base font size...
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use the font-size keyword (small, medium, large etc) to set the base font size in your body rule
this will allow all browsers to scale font sizes from this value if users want the text to be bigger or smaller |
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How do you make your text bold...
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use the font-weight CSS property
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How do you apply the italic formatting to your text...
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use the font-style property, which gives a slanted effect called italic or oblique (depending upon the font)
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What is at the heart of creating Web colors...
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you have to mix different amounts of
red green, and blue |
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if you mix 100% red, 100% green, and 100% blue, what colour will you get...
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white
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if you mix 0% red, 0% green, and 0% blue, what colour will you get...
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black
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CSS has a limited set of predefined colors, how many colors are in this set...
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17
these include the usual suspects of black, white, red, green, and blue... there are another 12 though |
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What are the different ways of specifying the percentages of RGB that you want...
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use a color's:
1) percentages i.e. 0% 0% 0% (for black) 2) numerical values [0-255] i.e. 255 255 255 (for white) 3) hex codes [00-ff] i.e. #007e7e (for aquamarine, etc) |
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What's an easy way to find the hex code of a color you want to use...
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use a photo-editing application's color picker tool or even an online Web tool
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How do you create underlined text, and why should you be very careful when using this formatting choice...
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to create an underlined text effect use the text-underline: property
you need to be careful when doing this as underlined text can be confused with hyperlinked text |
