CSS

Question 1

What CSS properties make up the box model?

Answer 1

Margin, Padding, border, width and height

Question 2

Which CSS property pushes boxes away from eachother?

Answer 2

Margin

Question 3

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

Answer 3

padding

Question 4

What are the names of individual pieces of a css rule set?

Answer 4

Selector and Declaration Block

Question 5

CSS selector for id attribute?

Answer 5

id

Question 6

CSS select elements by type?

Answer 6

element

Question 7

CSS selector for element by class?

Answer 7

.class

Question 8

What are the three different types of values you can use to specify colors in CSS?

Answer 8

RGB, Hexadecimal and color name

Question 9

What is a pseudo-class?

Answer 9

pseudo-class is a keyword added to a selector that specifies a special state of the selected element(s).

Question 10

Two types of units that. can be used to adjust font size in CSS

Answer 10

px, em, %

Question 11

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

Answer 11

font-family

Question 12

Default direction of a flex cotainer/ direction of an element with display: flex

Answer 12

row

Question 13

default flex wrap of flex container

Answer 13

nowrap

Question 14

why do two divs vertically stack on one another by default?

Answer 14

block

Question 15

Default value for the position property of HTML elements?

Answer 15

Static

Question 16

How does setting position: relative affect document flow?

Answer 16

moves an element in relation to where it would have been in normal flow ex left: 10px;

Question 17

how does position: absolute; affect normal flow?

Answer 17

taken out of normal flow and no longer affects other elements on a page

Question 18

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

Answer 18

set its ancestor to position relative

Question 19

what are the four box offset properties?

Answer 19

left right top bottom

Question 20

the four components of the cascade

Answer 20

source order, inheritance, specificity and !imporant

Question 21

what does the term source order mean with CSS?

Answer 21

the order from left to right of the styles applied to an element.

Question 22

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

Answer 22

inherit property

Question 23

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 23

*Type selectors, class selectors, ID selectors

Question 24

Why is using!importantconsidered bad practice?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

• What does the transform property do?

Answer 25

• Lets you modify the coordinate space of the css visual formatting

Question 26

• Give four examples of CSS transform functions.

Answer 26

• Rotate x rotate y , scale, transform.

Question 27

• Name four transition properties

Answer 27

• Transition, duration, timing function, delay property

Question 28

whats a breakpoint in responsive web design?

Answer 28

CSS breakpoints are the points added in the code, the website content responds to these points depending on the device screen size

Question 29

• What is the advantage of using a percentage (e.g.50%)widthinstead of a fixed (e.g.px)widthfor a “column” class in a responsive layout?

Answer 29

its got wiggle room on different screen sizes within the media query

Question 30

• If you introduce CSS rules for a smallermin-widthafterthe styles for a largermin-widthin your style sheet, the CSS rules for thesmallermin-widthwill “win”. Why is that?

Answer 30

source order