Configuring Color and Text with CSS

Flashcards covering key concepts related to configuring color and text with CSS.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

A flexible, cross-platform, standards-based language developed by the W3C to provide style to web pages.

Inline Styles

CSS styles applied directly within an HTML tag using the style attribute, affecting only that specific element.

Embedded Styles

CSS styles defined within the

External Styles

CSS styles contained in a separate .css file that can be linked to multiple HTML pages.

Hexadecimal Color Values

Color values expressed in base 16 that define RGB colors, represented as #RRGGBB.

Selectors

Patterns used in CSS to select the elements you want to style (e.g., element, class, id selectors).

font-family

CSS property that specifies the typeface for text elements.

font-size

CSS property that defines the size of the text.

text-align

CSS property that configures the alignment of text within a block element.

text-decoration

CSS property used to set the appearance of text with an underline, overline, or line-through.

Accessibility in CSS

Design considerations, such as ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background, to make web content usable for everyone.

Cascade in CSS

The ordering of style rules where styles are applied based on priority and location, determining which styles take precedence.