CSS Starter Guide - Lesson 1: Elements,Properties, and Selectors--Oh My!

Lesson 1: Elements,Properties, and Selectors--Oh My!

You should go through the tutorial on http://w3schools.com if these words aren't familiar to you, but I'm gonna put a mini-glossary here in case you don't have the terminology down.

Example HTML: <p>some paragraph</p> Example CSS: p{color: red;}

Element-Any HTML or XML tag and it's closing tag. Sometimes referred to as a node.

<p></p>

Properties-A CSS style attribute. There are lots of properties so either get a reference book or keep a online reference handy. color: red; Selector-In CSS this precedes the list of properties in the curly braces. Basically it links the CSS properties to elements. p{}