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CSS Dictionary

CSS - Cascading style sheet

CSS allows you to add style to your web page. HTML was a general markup and you will use CSS to make changes to what color the text is, how you want your photos to be centered, background, and background text.

{} - CSS syntax. curly brackets the declaration of the rule

CSS is a rule based language you will use curly brackets to make the declaration for example:

h1 { color: red; font-size: 5em; } Before the colon there is a property and after the colon there is a value

CSS Modules - just like how this code 102 assignments are broken up into modules, so is CSS.

The modules correspond to what you want to do with your page such as font-size, background-color, and color.

W3C - CSS working group . They have interest in CSS and set up industry standards and they develop features.

all web standards web standards are in a big file which will tell you how they should behave

Three Ways To insert CSS

Internal, External, and Inline

Internal CSS - An internal style sheet may be used if sone single HTML page has a unique style The <style> element must be in the head section

External CSS - With an external style sheet you can change the look of a website with just one file Every HTML page has to include a reference or <link> element inside the head section An external style sheet can be written in an text editor and must be saved with a .css extension

Inline CSS - It used to style a single element while you are writing -

There is a hierarchy and it is called Cascading order. from most important to least important.

The Order

  1. Inline style highest priority

  2. External

  3. Browser default