Glossary of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) termsGlossary of terms about Cascading Style Sheets terms with selected examples.class selector- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A syntax for specifying a CSS selector by means of a general purpose, repeatable class attribute of an element. The name of class selectors in style rules is preceded by a full stop or period, ., e.g.:http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#classselector Article feedback- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Your comments on this article will be appreciated, please use the form below to submit your views. If you would like a reply or article update notification, include your email address.http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#feedback value- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A length, quality, type or URL assigned to a style property for an element. CSS properties each have specific ranges of value or token types which may be declared for them. For instance, color properties have values specified by named color tokens (silver, purple, maroon), or RGB colour components in the decimal range 0 to 255 or hexadecimal equivalent. Other style properties take length values, URL values or other tokens such as float, repeat-y and both, which define how an element is rendered.http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#value style sheet, or stylesheet- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A collection of one or more style rules, specified in an HTML style element or external CSS file attached by an HTML link element. CSS stylesheets have the content type textcss, typically have the file extension .css and may specify one or more media types to which the styles should be applied:http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#stylesheet selector, or simple selector- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A logical "handle" or identifier by which style declarations are associated with specific elements of a document. Selectors may apply broadly to a named HTML element, such as <h3> or <p>, an HTML element with a named attribute value, particularly a class or id value. A simple selector is one which matches an element name only.http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#selector rule, or style rule- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The complete specification of an individual style including the selector, property and value. The term rule applies whatever form the selector takes and however many declaration pairs are present.http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#rule psuedo class, or psuedo class selector- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A syntax for selecting markup elements which have subsidiary or context-sensitive attributes in the context of document navigation or positioning, including hyperlinks. The state of these "false" classes in a elements in particular may help indicate that a hyperlinked document has been visited, but this condition is not specified by an explicit class or id attribute of the element, e.g.:http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#pseudoclass property- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A named style attribute or parameter for a markup element specified in a stylesheet declaration, e.g. color, background, font-family, margin etc., which is assigned a specific value. Properties are always followed by a colon to separate them from their value pair.http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#property id selector- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A syntax for specifying a CSS selector by means of a unique id attribute of an element. The name of id selectors in style rules is preceded by a hash or pound symbol, , e.g.:http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#idselector grouped selector- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A convenient means of specifying a range of selectors in a comma separated list to which the same style declaration applies, e.g.:http://www.codestyle.org/css/Glossary.shtml#groupedselector |