Cascading Style Sheets/Glossary

This is a glossary of the book, a list of keywords with definitions.

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declaration
One of the parts a CSS rule located in the curly brackets and separated by a semicolon, such as "font-weight: bold" in "span { font-weight: bold; background: yellow; }".
element
A part of a document starting with an opening tag and ending with a closing tag, such as "<p><b>keyword</b> is important</p>".
 

To do:
Define property.


rule
A string consisting of a selector, the "{" character, style specification, and the "}" character, such as "p { color: green; }".
selector
The part of a CSS rule before the first "{".
shorthand property
A CSS property that enables the setting of multiple properties as once, such as "border" as contrasts to non-shorthand properties "border-style" and "border-width".
tag
The opening and closing sequence of characters of an element, such as "<p>" or "</p>". To be distinguished from element.
user agent
The client application such as a web browser used with a particular network protocol, such as http: or ftp:.