Assignment 5

Gary Roll

Definitions

1. Inline Styles: The most basic of CSS styles, affecting a particular tag only.
2. Embedded Styles: Style applied to the entire HTML file, by associating style attributes with specific tags.
3. Declarations: The attributes and values (within curly braces) that indicate the styles applied to all occurances of an element.
4. Descendant Elements: An element that lies within another element.
5. Generic Font: A general description of a font type, such as Serif, Sans-Serif, Monospace, Cursive, or Fantasy.
6. Ex Unit: A relative unit of font size, equal to the height of a small letter x in the browser's default font. .
7. Pseudo Element: A element with a special status or use, such as a hyperlink with mouse hovering over it.
8. Inline Elements: Individual letters, words, or phrases, contained in Block Level Elements (text blocks).
9. External Style Sheets: A separate, external text file that contains all the style declarations for an entire web site, linked to each page where style is applied.
10. Selectors: An element such as a header or paragraph, to which a style is applied.
11. Parent Elements: An element that contains another element. Example: body tag.
12. Class: A named set of style specifications, called in tags within a web page.
13. Em Unit: A relative unit of font size, equal to the width of a capital letter M in the browser's default font.
14. Pseudo Class: A classification of an element, based on its status or use, such as the condition of a hyperlink with the mouse hovering over it.
15. Block Level Elements: Text blocks such as paragraphs, block qoutes, headers, or lists; usually containing inline elements, such as individual letters, words, or phrases.