CSS Flashcards

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

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Selector of the HTML element and declaration of property and the value and declaration block

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

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In CSS, how do you select elements by their tag name?

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Element name

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

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#

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

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RGB values, Hex codes, Color names

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What CSS properties make up the box model?

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Width, height, border, margin, padding,

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Which CSS property pushes boxes away from each other?

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The margin is an invisible space around your box. It pushes other elements away from the box like a puffy jacket but you urself are not bigger, space outside the element

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

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Padding

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What is a pseudo-class?

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selector that selects elements that are in a specific state, condition met also just a class

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What are CSS pseudo-classes useful for?

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Specifies a special state of the selected element

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

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pixels , percentages, ems

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

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font-family

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13
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What is the default flex-direction of a flex container?

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row

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

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Nowrap, single line

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

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It is a block element so starts on a new line

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

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What are the three primary components of a page layout? (Which helper classes do you need?)

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Container column row

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What is the minimum number of columns that you should put in a row?

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What is the purpose of a container?

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Boundary for content, window of area to have stuff in

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

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Static positioning

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

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Normal flow until you use top bottom left right. No effect on document flow

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

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move relative to where it would exist if static

It will move those units away from the direction stated.

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

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no longer exists in the normal document flow

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

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specify the distance the element should be from each of the containing element’s sides - from the container (ancestor or non static, nearest position element). appear on page relative to boundaries of its containing block or non static ancestor

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How do you constrain an absolutely positioned element to a containing block?
Set offset property to the ancestor element of the containing block. Set width and height to 100%
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What are the four box offset properties?
top bottom left right
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What are the four components of "the Cascade"
source order, inheritance, specificity, !important
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What does the term "source order" mean with respect to CSS?
the order that your CSS rules are written in your stylesheet. Lower is stronger
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How is it possible for the styles of an element to be applied to its children as well without an additional CSS rule?
inheritance
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List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.
no value (*), type, class, ID
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Why is using !important considered bad practice?
overrides all other declarations and makes the CSS code more difficult to maintain and debug.
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The transition property is shorthand for which four CSS properties?
transition-property, transition-duration, transition-timing-function, and transition-delay.
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What does the transform property do?
rotate, scale, skew, or translate an element adjust how it renders itself in the coordinate plane
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Give four examples of CSS transform functions.
rotate scale transform matrix
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Give two examples of media features that you can query in an @media rule.
color , width, height, min-width
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Which HTML meta tag is used in mobile-responsive web pages?
viewport meta tag The width=device-width part sets the width of the page to follow the screen-width of the device (which will vary depending on the device). The initial-scale=1.0 part sets the initial zoom level when the page is first loaded by the browser.
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What is a breakpoint in responsive Web design?
The points at which a media query is introduced - change the design at the size where the content starts to break in some way. Boundary line based on size to shift css or page when its reached
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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?
Adaptable and scales to viewport size
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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?
Source order