Workshop
The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and begin learning how to put your knowledge into practice.
Quiz
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What is the purpose of an element type selector? |
| 2. |
How does the block value differ from the inline value in the display property? |
| 3. |
How do you associate an external CSS style sheet with an XML document? |
| 4. |
How would you specify that a style rule is supposed to indent the first line of a paragraph by 6 centimeters? |
Quiz Answers
| 1. |
An element type selector selects an element of a given type and applies a style or set of styles to it. This represents the simplest approach to using CSS because there is a one-to-one mapping between element types and styles. |
| 2. |
When used with the display property, the block value results in an element being placed on a new line by itself, whereas the inline value places the element next to the content immediately preceding it. |
| 3. |
The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is used to associate an external CSS style sheet with an XML document. |
| 4. |
To specify that a style rule is supposed to indent the first line of a paragraph by 6 centimeters, you would use the style setting text-indent:6cm. |
Exercises
| 1. |
Modify the news.css style sheet so that the story text is displayed with a gray background. Hint: This requires you to modify the style rule for the p element. |
| 2. |
Modify the news.css style sheet so that the letter spacing of the headline is wider than normal. |