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CSS Flashcards

1
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What is the purpose of CSS?

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Stands for Cascading Style Sheets

  • Used to style a web page
  • Describes how HTML elements are displayed on screens, paper, and other forms of media
  • Saves a lot of time and work because it can format more than one webpage
  • Defines styles for webpages, from layouts, design, and format, in the way it displays on screen
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Describe the syntax of the CSS ruleset.

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Consists of:

Selector (h1) - points towards the html element that will be styled

Declaration (property:value; property:value) - contains one or more declarations that are separated by semicolons. Also contains a CSS property name and value separated by a colon

Declaration blocks have curly braces around them

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What are some characteristics of block?

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  • Displays an element as a block

- Starts on a new line and takes up the whole width

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What are some characteristics of inline?

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  • Displays an element as inline
  • Can start on the same line
  • Height and width cannot be controlled
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What are some characteristics of inline block?

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  • Displays an element as an inline-level block container
  • Element is formatted as an inline element
  • Can apply height width values
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What is the default flex-direction of a flex container?

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Contents will go horizontally from left to right

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

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Flex items will try to fit onto one line and wrap as needed

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What is one of the uses of Flexbox?

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Providing an efficient way to lay out, align, and distribute space among items in a container. Even when size is unknown and/or dynamic.

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What are the three primary parts of a layout system?

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  • An element to be the container
  • One or more elements acting as the row
  • At least one column element in each of the row elements
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10
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In CSS, how do you select elements by their class attribute?

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.classname

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

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selectors, declaration block, property, and value

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

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elementname

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

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idname

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14
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Name three different types of values you can use to specify colors in CSS

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Color Names (nameOfColor)
Hex Codes (#(######))
RGB Values (rgb(100, 100, 100)
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15
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How do you write a comment in CSS?

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/* comment here */

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16
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What CSS properties make up the box model?

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Padding, margin, border, and content

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17
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Which CSS property pushes boxes away from each other?

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Margin

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18
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Which CSS property adds space between a box’s content and its border?

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Padding

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19
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What is a pseudo-class?

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A class added to a selector that specifies a special state of the selected element.

Example using :hover can change an element when user’s pointer hovers over said element.

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20
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What are CSS pseudo-classes useful for?

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Allows you to add style to an element that is not only content related

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21
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Name two types of units that can be used to adjust font-size in CSS

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Pixels = precise number that makes up the units of a screen
Percentages = percentage of 16px
ems = width of the letter m
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22
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What CSS property controls the font used for the text inside an element?

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Font-family

23
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Examples of font-weight?

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  • Normal

- Bold

24
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Examples of font-style?

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  • Normal
  • Italic
  • Oblique
25
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Examples of text-transform?

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  • Uppercase
  • Lowercase
  • Capitalize
26
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Examples of text-decoration?

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  • None
  • Underline
  • Overline
  • Line-through
  • Blink
27
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What is the default flex-direction of a flex container?

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Row, left -> right

28
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What is the default flex-wrap of a flex container?

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Fit all in one container

29
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Why do two div elements “vertically stack” on one another by default?

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Div elements are block so they always start on a new line

30
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What is the default flex-direction of an element with display:flex?

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Row, left -> right

31
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What is a utility class?

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Classes named after what it is meant to do to an element.

They do not grow and are meant to be reused

Example class=column-fourth named after a behavior to make an element be 1/4ths of something

32
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What is a semantic class?

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Class named after its element

33
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What is the default value for the position property of HTML elements?

34
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How does setting position: relative on an element affect document flow?

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Stays where it is in document flow.

Contains any elements with position:absolute.

35
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How does setting position: relative on an element affect where it appears on the page?

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Its position would be set based on where it was originally.

36
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How does setting position: absolute on an element affect document flow?

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It’s content fills in the next non-static ancestor element (fill in a position:relative element)

37
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How does setting position: absolute on an element affect where it appears on the page?

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Positioning would be based on where it’s being contained.

38
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How do you constrain an absolutely positioned element to a containing block?

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Using a relative positioned element as its container.

39
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What are the four box offset properties?

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Top
Bottom
Left
Right

40
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What are the four components of “the Cascade”?

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  • source order
  • inheritance
  • specificity
  • *!important
41
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What does the term “source order” mean with respect to CSS?

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The priority in which styling goes.

Goes from weakest -> strongest

42
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How is it possible for styles of an element to be applied to its children as well without an additional CSS rule?

A

Using the inherit value

43
Q

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

A 
type selector
class selector
id selector
44
Q

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

A

Makes debugging more difficult

It makes priority for that certain declaration way too strong

45
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What is a breakpoint in responsive Web design?

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The point at which a media query is introduced.

Breakpoints occur when a change in display occurs

46
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What is the advantage of using percentage (eg. 50%) width instead of a fixed (eg. px) width for a “column” class in a responsive layout?

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Items will scale to match the size of the viewport’s width

47
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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?

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Because according to rules of source order the later rule sets have priority over the earlier ones

48
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What is a media query?

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Applies CSS when browser and device environment matches the rules stated

49
Q

What does the transform property do?

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Let’s you rotate, scale, skew, or translate an element

50
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Give four examples of CSS transform functions.

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transform: scale(2, 0.5); = changes the element to the values set
transform: rotate(0.5turn); = rotates the element to the values set
transform: matrix(1, 2, 3, 4) = sets element on a 2-D plane based on values set
transform: skew(15deg, 15deg) = skews an element on a 2-D plane based on values set

51
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Give two examples of media features that you can query in an @media rule.

A

color

aspect-ratio

52
Q

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

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“viewport”

53
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The transition property is shorthand for which four CSS properties?

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Transition-delay = specifies the duration to wait before starting a property’s transition effect when its value changes

Transition-duration = sets the length of time a transition animation should take to complete

Transition-property = sets the CSS properties to which a transition effect should be applied

Transition-timing-function = sets how intermediate values are calculated for CSS properties being affected by a transition effect

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