CSS Lynda

Question 1

3 different ways to apply css

Answer 1

external stylesheet
style attribute, ex: style=
style tag, ex:

Question 2

What does the font measurement em mean?

Answer 2

vertical size of the font

Question 3

How do you calculate the total box size

Answer 3

content + padding + border + margin

Question 4

How do you make internet explorer follow the standard way of interpreting the box model for your external css file?

Answer 4

at the top of your external css file include the standards mode code with nothing above it not even comments

Question 5

What happens to the children of a parent element when you put position relative on the parent?

Answer 5

It positions children elements relative to the parent

it creates a reference point for absolute positioning.

relative positioning doesn’t change the position of the element it is placed on

Question 6

What is fixed positioning relative to

Answer 6

the window

Question 7

What is the requirement to place z positioning?

Answer 7

the element must have a position

Question 8

Why does content go underneath floats?

Answer 8

floating removing it from the layout positioning

however inline items will move around floats

Question 9

What is padding?

Answer 9

space added inside of the border

Question 10

Do vertical margins collapse?

Answer 10

Yes