General CSS

Question 1

What is CSS used for

Answer 1

To control how a web page looks

Question 2

What does CSS stand for

Answer 2

Cascading Style Sheets

Question 3

What are inline style sheets

Answer 3

Styles that are embedded right within the HTML code they affect

Question 4

What are internal style sheets

Answer 4

Styles that are placed within the header information of the web page, and then affect all corresponding tags on a single page

Question 5

What are external style sheets

Answer 5

Styles that are coded in a separate document, which is then referenced from within the header of the actual web page

Question 6

How are internal style sheets made

Answer 6

Using the style element to contain all the instructions for the page

Question 7

What file extension does an external CSS style sheet have

Answer 7

.css

Question 8

What three types of style sheets does CSS provide

Answer 8

inline, internal and external

Question 9

How do CSS inline declarations appear

Answer 9

Enclosed in straight quotes using the style attribute of whichever tag you want to affect

Question 10

What is a CSS style

Answer 10

Essentially a rule that specifies how a particular element will be formatted

Question 11

What does CSS padding refer to

Answer 11

The spacing between the text and the borders of the section

Question 12

What is the CSS margin

Answer 12

The spacing between the section and its surroundings

Question 13

What are CSS style sheets made up of

Answer 13

Rules

Question 14

What does the cascading part of ‘Cascading Style Sheets’ refer to

Answer 14

The rules that determine which of a set of competing rules apply to an element

Question 15

What does a CSS border have

Answer 15

A width, type, and colour

Question 16

What is the CSS box model

Answer 16

A model that defines the dimensions of elements as they’re laid out on the page

Question 17

According to the CSS box model, what do all elements have

Answer 17

a width, height, padding, border and a margin

Question 18

How is an elements width defined

Answer 18

explicitly or determined automatically by the browser based on the content and display mode

Question 19

In CSS, what is a floated element

Answer 19

An element that’s outside of the normal flow of text

Question 20

Why must you clear un-floated elements that appear under floated elements

Answer 20

to prevent the floated elements from overlapping the un-floated elements