CSS

Question 1

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

Answer 1

The selector, the declaration block, property value pairs

Question 2

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

Answer 2

You use “.” followed by the elements with that class attribute

Question 3

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

Answer 3

You use the name of the element

Question 4

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

Answer 4

You us “#” followed by elements with that id attribute

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Using one of the 147 predefined colors, rgba, and hexadecimal color values

Question 6

what CSS properties make up the box model?

Answer 6

Border, margin, padding

Question 7

Which CSS property pushes boxes away from each other?

Answer 7

Margin

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Padding

Question 9

What is a pseudo-class?

Answer 9

Adds some kind of functionality to a selector

Question 10

What are CSS pseudo-classes used for?

Answer 10

They allow you to change the style of elements when you interact with them

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Px, rem, %

Question 12

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

Answer 12

font-family

Question 13

What are the four components of “the cascade”

Answer 13

Importance, Specificity, Source Order, Inheritance

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The order that the CSS rules be applied

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Because of inheritance, some styles of an element will be adopted by its child element

Question 16

List the three selector types in order of specificity

Answer 16

Id, class, type selector

Question 17

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 17

It breaks the cascade of the CSS and makes debugging harder

Question 18

What is the defaultflex-directionof aflexcontainer?

Answer 18

flex-direction: row;

Question 19

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

Answer 19

flex-wrap: no-

wrap;

Question 20

What does the transform property do?

Answer 20

It lets you rotate, scale, move, and skew elements

Question 21

Give four examples of CSS transform functions.

Answer 21

rotate()
Scale()
skew()
translate()

Question 22

Thetransitionproperty is shorthand for which four CSS properties?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Width, color

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Viewport meta tag

Question 25

What is abreakpointin responsive Web design?

Answer 25

A point where there is a change of rules for how the website content is displayed depending on screen size

Question 26

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 26

Percentages allow you to set widths for all kinds of screens, without to make rules for every type of screen size

Question 27

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 27

The Css will read from from top to bottom and will go with the one afterwards if the css rulesets have the same specificity