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Web Developer's Reference Guide
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Web Developer's Reference Guide

by Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
March 2016
Beginner
838 pages
14h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Display and visibility

Display properties are some of the most widely used CSS features in web design and development.

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all

The all CSS property resets an element's properties to its default values, and it looks like this:

all: initial;

Description

The only properties that are not reset are the direction and unicode-bidi properties, which control text direction. This is important because text direction is required to understand the content. If these properties were reset by the all property, then text would run the opposite way it's supposed to, disrupting the message completely.

This property supports three keyword values: initial, inherit, and unset.

  • initial: This changes all the properties of the element or the element's parent ...
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