CSS

Question 1

What does CSS stand for?

Answer 1

Cascade style sheets

Question 2

What kind of language is it?

Answer 2

Scripting language used to describe layout and styles of a webpage.

Question 3

What is the main goal of CSS?

Answer 3

To create consistent web pages

Question 4

What are the main advantage of CSS?

Answer 4

• the formatting of the webpage can be separated from content hence it can be reused and designer can focus on 1 thing at a time

Question 5

What are the 2 ways of adding CSS?

Answer 5

• inline
• internal or embedded
• external style sheet

Question 6

What is an inline method of adding styling to a webpage?

Answer 6

A one- off change to a singular element of a html document e.g. <p style="float:left;">RAW TEXT</p>

Question 7

What else can we use to describe the colour?

Answer 7

hexadecimal code

Question 8

What is the embedded/internal styling method?

Answer 8

Where the CSS code is added within the head.

It is the actual CSS code that applies throughout the content of webpage

Question 9

What is the external style sheet styling method?

Answer 9

Where a link to a css stylesheet is defined within the head and contents of body are linked to it. This is done using the tag. This one comes with reusability between webpages.

Question 10

What are the identifiers and class selectors?

Answer 10

‘hooks’ onto which we can hang the styles

Question 11

What is an identifier?

Answer 11

# id in html file 
{ 
   max - width:800px;  
   font-family: Arial; 
   padding: 30px; 
   background-color: white; 
   margin : 20px auto ; 
   font-size: 20px 
   text-allign:left:  
}

Question 12

What is a class?

Answer 12

work in a similar way to an identifier but uses a . prefix
e.g. .list
These can be applied multiple times within a webpage compared to identifier which are only used for element of that unique name

Question 13

id in html file?

Answer 13

an attribute when defining element e.g <div></div>

Question 14

class in html file?

Answer 14

an attribute when defining an element e.g. <div class="list"></div>

Question 15

What are some CSS properties?

Answer 15

border-color 
background-color 
border-width 
font-family 
font-size 
height 
width 
color 
border-style (solid,double or outset)