CSS

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Selectors - indicate which element the rule applies to.
The same rule can apply to more than one element if you separate the element names with commas.

Declarations
Indicate how the elements referred to in the selector should be styles.

Declarations are split into two parts (a property and a value), and are separated by a colon
Property and value

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Use a dot
.class
Use class for CSS

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Using a css selector

Matches elements name / write name of element

Question 4

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

Answer 4

#id
Hashtag and name of ID

Question 5

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

Answer 5

These express color in terms of how much red, green, and blue are used to make it up.
rgb(100,100,0)

Hex Codes
These are six digit codes that represent the amount of red, green, and blue in a color preceded by a pound or hash # sign.
#ee3e80

Color name
There are 147 predefined color names that are recognized by browsers.
DarkCyan

Question 6

What CSS properties make up the box model?

Answer 6

Border - Every box has a border. The border separates the edge if one box from another

Margin - Margins sit outside the edge of the border. You can set the width of a margin to create a gap between the borders of two adjacent boxes.

Padding - is the space between the border of a box and any content contained within it. Adding padding can increase the readability of its content

Content: The area where your content is displayed, which can be sized using properties like width and height.

Question 7

Which CSS property pushes boxes away from each other?

Answer 7

Margin

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Padding

Question 9

What is a pseudo-class?

Answer 9

A class applied by the browser when the element is in a selected states

Question 10

What are CSS pseudo-classes useful for?

Answer 10

It is useful for changing appearances of elements based on interaction

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Pixels - pixels are commonly used because they allow web designers very precise control over how much space their text takes up.

The number of pixels is followed by the letters px.

Percentages - takes percentage of the default size of text or percentage or parent size of text

Ems - equivalent to the width of the letter m
Most common are pixel, em and rem

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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 row (left to right)

Question 14

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

Answer 14

No wrap - try to fit in one row

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Div elements are block and create a new line

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Row. left to right

Question 17

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

Answer 17

static

Question 18

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

Answer 18

This does not affect the position of surrounding elements, they stay in the position they would be in normal flow

Question 19

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

Answer 19

It moves the element from the position it would have been during normal flow.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

It comes out of the document flow. (Removed out of document flow entirely.)
Other elements take its place
Acts like its not even there

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Positions the element in relation to its containing element.
It takes it out of normal flow
Elements move as users scroll up and down in the page

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Set the direct parent to position: relative

Question 23

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

Answer 23

Source order - in situations where a property has been declared for an element only once, this is a very straight forward process.
Source order is, simply put, the order that your CSS rules are written in your stylesheet. The styling provided for an element last in your stylesheet is the styling that will ultimately take effect.

Inheritance is the process by which certain CSS properties on a child HTML element can receive value from a parent element, if no CSS for that property is directly declared on the child element.

Specificity is the means by which browsers decide which CSS property values are the most relevant to an element and, therefore, will be applied. Specificity is based on the matching rules which are composed of different sorts of CSS selectors.
determined by the number of each selector type in the matching selector. When multiple declarations have equal specificity, the last declaration found in the CSS is applied to the element.

!important - gives it the highest priority

Question 24

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

Answer 24

The order in which a rule is written

The further down you get in your stylesheet the more important

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The property can be an inherited property or by using inherit as the value to a property

Question 26

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 26

Type selectors (e.g., h1) and pseudo-elements (e.g., ::before).
Class selectors (e.g., .example), attributes selectors (e.g., [type="radio"]) and pseudo-classes (e.g., :hover).
ID selectors (e.g., #example).

Question 27

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 27

because it makes debugging more difficult by breaking the natural cascading in your stylesheets.
The only way to override important is with another important rule

Question 28

​​What does the transform property do?

Answer 28

The transform CSS property lets you rotate, scale, skew, or translate an element. It modifies the coordinate space of the CSS visual formatting model.

Question 29

Give four examples of CSS transform functions.

Answer 29

translateY()
rotate()
scale(parameter1,parameter 2)
skew(parameter1,parameter 2)

Question 30

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

Answer 30

viewport

Question 31

The transition property is shorthand for which four CSS properties?

Answer 31

Transition-property
transition-duration
Transition-timing-function
transition-delay

Question 32

What is a breakpoint in responsive Web design?

Answer 32

points at which a media query is introduced are known as breakpoints.

Question 33

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?

Answer 33

Percentage is variable. It is a percentage of what the parent element is

Fluidly takes up the space that is available

Question 34

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?

Answer 34

The one that is written after overrides the one that was written before

Due to source order and cascading