CSS Dictionary
Terms you must know to use Cascading Style Sheet.
Bullet
Graphic element associated with a list of items formatted by the descriptor li.
You can remove the bullet and align the list with this descriptor:
li { padding-left:12px; }
Descriptor
List of statements which each associates a value to a property:
font-style:100%; color: black;
Font stack
It is the list of fonts who is assigned to the font-family property:
font-family: { Helvetica, Arial, sans }
Measure
It is the length of lines of text. It is defined with the width property of the container.
The space between lines may be defined also by the line-height property.
Selector
Designates an element in the page which is associated with a descriptor. The element can be an HTML tag, an identifier, a class. This can be a generic CSS selecteur.
#identifier tag .class *
See also
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