A style rule is a qualified rule that associates a selector list with a list of property declarations and possibly a list of nested rules. They are also called rule sets in CSS2.
…As the above quote from W3C indicates, it seems
Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper.
…Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […]
The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it
This is a neat interactive page by Ville V. Vanninen to reference the names of things in the CSS syntax. I feel like the easy ones to remember are “selector,” “property,” and “value,” but even as a person who writes …
I was trying to think of the name of a thing in the CSS vernacular the other day. It made me think we should have some kind of reference right here on CSS-Tricks, as a site with CSS in the …
