CSS

Question 1

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

Answer 1

selector, declaration block

property and values

Question 2

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

Answer 2

In Css, you select the class attribute with the .class selector

Question 3

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

Answer 3

In css you select elements by their type by just typing the element

Question 4

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

Answer 4

In css, you select the id attribute with the #id selector

Question 5

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

Answer 5

RGB(x,x,x); hex code #234513; and color names that are predefined

Question 6

What CSS properties make up the box model?

Answer 6

There are always three properties to a css box model. Border, margin, and padding.

Question 7

Which CSS property pushes boxes away from each other?

Answer 7

The property that pushes boxes away from each other is margin.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

The property that adds space between the box content and its border is padding.

Question 9

What is a pseudo-class?

Answer 9

class applied by the browser when an element is in a specific state.

Question 10

What are CSS pseudo-classes useful for?

Answer 10

Changing what an element is doing based on what the user is doing. They also simplify processes that would otherwise take more time to do

Question 11

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

Answer 11

The types of units that can adjust the font-size in css are pixels (px), percentages (%), and EMS (em)

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The css property that controls the font used for inside the text element is font-family

Question 13

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

Answer 13

The default flex-direction of a flex container is a row

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The default of a flex-wrap is nowrap in a flex container.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

position: static; is the default property for html elements

Question 16

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

Answer 16

It stays in the same spot of document flow but can be moved relative to where it was originally

Question 17

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

Answer 17

It just doesn’t go anywhere, it’s exactly the same but simply becomes a position element

Question 18

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

Answer 18

absolute is removed from the normal document flow. Elements no longer consider it to exist

Question 19

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

Answer 19

It is positioned relative to its closest positioned ancestor. It’s placed in the initial containing block. It’s place within the nearest non-static ancestor.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

By nesting it in a non static position position (relative usually)

Question 21

What are the four box offset properties?

Answer 21

Top Bottom Left and RIght

Question 22

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

Answer 22

The first one is source order, second is inheritance, specificity, and !important

Question 23

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

Answer 23

The order of CSS rules that were written in your stylesheet is what determines it. The later rule takes priority over one earlier.

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Children will inherit the values and styling of their parent. So you can just apply it to the parent

Question 25

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 25

type selector > class selector> id selector

Question 26

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 26

It makes debugging difficult and breaks the natural cascading in your stylesheets

Question 27

What does the transform property do?

Answer 27

It modifies the coordinate space of the css visual formatting model

Question 28

Give four examples of CSS transform functions.

Answer 28

rotate, skew, scale, translate(y)

Question 29

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

Answer 29

min-width max width, color print

Question 30

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

Answer 30

the meta viewport tag

Question 31

The transition property is shorthand for which four CSS properties?

Answer 31

The transition CSS property is a shorthand property for transition-property, transition-duration, transition-timing-function, and transition-delay.