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CSS Flashcards

1
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What are the names of the individual pieces of a CSS rule?

A

CSS rule consist of a selector and a declaration block

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2
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In CSS, how do you select elements by their class attribute?

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With .class name

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3
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In CSS, how do you select elements by their type?

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You write the name of the element as the selector

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4
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In CSS, how do you select an element by its id attribute?

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With #id name

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5
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Name three different types of values you can use to specify colors in CSS.

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RGB values, HEX codes, color names

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6
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What CSS properties make up the box model?

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Border, margin, padding

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7
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Which CSS property pushes boxes away from each other?

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margin

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8
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Which CSS property add space between a box’s content and its border?

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padding

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9
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What is a pseudo-class?

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A pseudo-class is keywords that are added to a selector that specifies a special state of the selected elements

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10
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What are CSS pseudo-classes useful for?

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They are useful in applying style to an element without having to additional classes

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11
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Name at least two units of type size in CSS

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pixels, percentage, ems

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12
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What CSS property controls the font used for the text inside an element?

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Font-family

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13
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What is the default flex-direction of a flex container?

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Row - horizontal

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14
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What is the default flex-wrap of a flex container?

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No wrap

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15
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What is the default value for the position property of HTML elements?

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Static - Normal Flow

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16
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How does setting position: relative on an element affect document flow?

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You can shift element without affecting surrounding text and document flow

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17
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How does setting position: relative on an element affect where it appears on the page?

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It stays where it is unless you shift it

18
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How does setting position: absolute on an element affect document flow?

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t’s removed from the document flow

19
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How does setting position: absolute on an element affect where it appears on the page?

A

Find the boundary and look for a non-static position. Appears nearest non-static parent

20
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How do you constrain an absolutely positioned element to a containing block?

A

Set up non-static position

21
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What are the four box offset properties?

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Top, bottom, left, right

22
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What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

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Source order, inheritance, specificity, !important

23
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What does the term “source order” mean with respect to CSS?

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Styling provided for an element last in your stylesheet gets priority

24
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How is it possible for the styles of an element to be applied to its children as well without an additional CSS rule?

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Through inheritance if no CSS for that property is directly declared on the child element.

25
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List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

A

type, class, id

26
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Why is using !important considered bad practice?

A

It makes debugging more difficult by breaking the natural cascading in your stylesheets

27
Q

The transition property is shorthand for which four CSS properties?

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shorthand property for transition-property, transition-duration, transition-timing-function, and transition-delay

28
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What event is fired when a user places their cursor in a form control?

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focus

29
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What event is fired when a user’s cursor leaves a form control?

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blur

30
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what event is fired as a user changes the value of a form control?

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input

31
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What event is fired when a user clicks the “submit” button within a ?

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submit

32
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What does the event.preventDefault() method do?

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prevents default actions

33
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What does submitting a form without event.preventDefault() do?

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Automatically load the form values

34
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What property of a form element object contains all of the form’s control?

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elements property

35
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What property of form a control object gets and sets its value?

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value property

36
Q

What is one risk of writing a lot of code without checking to see if it works so far?

A

It’s hard to know where the error is

37
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What is an advantage of having your console open when writing a JavaScript program?

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38
Q

Give two examples of media features that you can query in an @media rule.

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max-width, min-width, height, grid, orientation, etc

39
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Which HTML meta tag is used in mobile-responsive web pages?

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viewport

40
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What is a breakpoint in responsive Web design?

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point where our styling can break or styling changes and where the media query is introduced

41
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What is the advantage of using a percentage (e.g. 50%) width instead of a fixed (e.g. px) width for a “column” class in a responsive layout?

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with percentages the layout adapts to the exact dimensions of the viewport’s width.

42
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If you introduce CSS rules for a smaller min-width after the styles for a larger min-width in your style sheet, the CSS rules for the smaller min-width will “win”. Why is that?

A

the cascade system.

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