Cascading Style Sheets/Glossary

This is a glossary of the book, a list of keywords with definitions. D declaration One of the parts a CSS rule located in the curly brackets and separated by a semicolon, such as "font-weight: bold" in "span { font-weight: bold; background: yellow; }". E element A part of a document starting with an opening tag and ending with a closing tag, such as "<p><b>keyword</b> is important</p>". P Define property. R rule A string consisting of a selector, the "{" character, style specification, and the "}" character, such as "p { color: green; }". S selector The part of a CSS rule before the first "{". shorthand property A CSS property that enables the setting of multiple properties as once, such as "border" as contrasts to non-shorthand properties "border-style" and "border-width". T tag The opening and closing sequence of characters of an element, such as "<p>" or "</p>". To be distinguished from element. U user agent The client application such as a web browser used with a particular network protocol, such as http: or ftp:.