Cascading Style Sheets/Glossary
This is a glossary of the book, a list of keywords with definitions.
D
[edit | edit source]- declaration
- One of the parts a CSS rule located in the curly brackets and separated by a semicolon, such as "font-weight: bold" in "span { font-weight: bold; background: yellow; }".
E
[edit | edit source]- element
- A part of a document starting with an opening tag and ending with a closing tag, such as "<p><b>keyword</b> is important</p>".
P
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R
[edit | edit source]- rule
- A string consisting of a selector, the "{" character, style specification, and the "}" character, such as "p { color: green; }".
S
[edit | edit source]- selector
- The part of a CSS rule before the first "{".
- shorthand property
- A CSS property that enables the setting of multiple properties as once, such as "border" as contrasts to non-shorthand properties "border-style" and "border-width".
T
[edit | edit source]- tag
- The opening and closing sequence of characters of an element, such as "<p>" or "</p>". To be distinguished from element.
U
[edit | edit source]- user agent
- The client application such as a web browser used with a particular network protocol, such as http: or ftp:.