Skill Struck ITS Unit 5 Vocabulary

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block elements

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HTML elements that always start on a new line and take up the full available width, which forces the next element to stack vertically underneath it.

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border

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The very edge surrounding an element.

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content

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This is the center of the box, where your actual text and images live.

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CSS float

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The CSS float property moves an element to the left or right side of a container, causing text and other elements to wrap around it like an image in a newspaper.

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CSS Grid

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CSS Grid is a powerful two-dimensional layout system that lets you organize a webpage's content into columns and rows at the same time, much like a table or spreadsheet.

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CSS overflow

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A CSS property that controls what happens when the content inside an element (like text or an image) is too large to fit in the space provided.

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display property

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Tells elements how to align on a page.

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flexbox

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A CSS tool that helps you easily arrange and align a group of items, like a navigation bar, along a single line (either a row or a column) so they can automatically adjust to fit different screen sizes.

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margin

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The space around the element--much like the margins of a page given a kind of border.

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max width

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The maximum width an element could take, no matter the screen size.