CSS

Question 1

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

Answer 1

properties

Question 2

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

Answer 2

use “.”

Question 3

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

Answer 3

simply state the tag

Question 4

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

Answer 4

use “#”

Question 5

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

Answer 5

rgb, hex, color name

Question 6

What CSS properties make up the box model?

Answer 6

Margin, border, padding, content

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

keyword added to a selector which specifies a special state of the selected element

Question 10

What are CSS pseudo-classes useful for?

Answer 10

designing elements based off specific instances

Question 11

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

Answer 11

rem, em, px, %

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

row

Question 14

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

Answer 14

no-wrap

Question 15

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

Answer 15

they are block elements

Question 16

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

Answer 16

row

Question 17

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

Answer 17

container, row, column

Question 18

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

Answer 18

1

Question 19

What is the purpose of a container?

Answer 19

acts as a formatter for the document

Question 20

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

Answer 20

static

Question 21

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

Answer 21

affects flow as it is moved relative to where it normally would have been

Question 22

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

Answer 22

relative to where it would have originally been on the page

Question 23

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

Answer 23

does not affect the flow, it is taken out of flow and other elements don’t notice it

Question 24

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

Answer 24

it is now relative to its containing element

Question 25

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

Answer 25

make it’s container “position: relative”

Question 26

What are the four box offset properties?

Answer 26

top, right, bottom, left

Question 27

What are the four components of “the Cascade”.

Answer 27

source order, specificity, inheritance and importance

Question 28

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

Answer 28

the order in which a property was vertically assigned a value for a specific selector

Question 29

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

Answer 29

inheritence

Question 30

List the three selector types in order of increasing specificity.

Answer 30

type, class, ID

Question 31

Why is using !important considered bad practice?

Answer 31

missed in updates, also takes extra steps to accomplish this