Tech Terms you Must Know : CSS

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CSS

CSS (CASCADING STYLE SHEETS)

CSS is the language used to add style to documents created with HTML. Where HTML comes first and creates the foundation for a page, CSS comes along next and is used to create the page’s layout, color, fonts, etc.

CSS3

CSS3 is the latest version of CSS, introducing features like rounded corners, shadows, gradients, transitions or animations, and new layouts like multi-columns and flexible box or grid layouts.

SELECTOR

Selector is a part of CSS code that defines which HTML element the CSS styling effects. For example if element “p” (say, a specific paragraph) is a selector, then p TKTKTKTK will change the font size of the selected element.

PROPERTY

A property in CSS is the part of a web page’s foundational HTML code (font size, color, margin) whose appearance or style is changed by CSS.

VALUE

A value is the CSS code that defines the settings for for a CSS property. For example, if you’re using CSS to change the font size and color of a certain block of text, the value describes what those changes will be. The value 1.5em, red, 20px will cause the property (the block of text) to have an indentation of 1.5 the font size, the text will appear red, and the font size will be 20pt.

DECLARATIONS

Declarations are parts of CSS code where a property and value for the selector are displayed inside a pair of curly brackets.

{font-size: 1.5em;}