CSS Terms to Apply Styling
- Selector
- A means to indicate which elements will be affected by a style
- select by Element type
- select by CLASS attribute
- select by
ID attribute
- select by combination of Element type, ID and CLASS
attribute
- Property
- Style characteristics that will be defined for a selector
- Value
- The value assigned to a particular property
- Cascading
- Multiple external, internal and inline styling can be
applied to a document, and styles are inherited from the previous style sheet,
unless over ridden by a new style
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