Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 For Dummies

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CSS Structure and Syntax

In This Chapter

Using selectors and declarations

Creating style rules

Discovering CSS properties

Understanding inheritance and the style cascade

In this chapter, we talk about the rules, or syntax, of CSS. Once you understand how CSS goes about locating elements and applying styles to them, we’ll get into more details about the important topic of cascading. So far, we’ve only touched on the topic of cascading but it’s vital to understanding how to use CSS.

Exploring CSS Structure and Syntax

A style sheet is made of style rules. Each style rule has two parts:

Selector: Specifies the markup element to which style rules apply

Declaration: Specifies how content described by the markup looks

You use a set of punctuation marks and special characters to define a style rule. The syntax for a style rule always follows this pattern:

selector {declaration;}

A semicolon ...