CSS Fundamentals and Best Practices

This video introduces CSS, explaining its role in web design as a separate language from HTML. It highlights the limitations of HTML for styling and the need for CSS to manage web page aesthetics efficiently. The video covers CSS rules, selectors, and properties, demonstrating how CSS can standardize styles across multiple web pages. It also explains how to integrate CSS into HTML documents and provides practical examples of CSS in action.

What does CSS stand for?

• Cascading Style Sheets

• Computer Style Sheets

• Creative Style Sheets

• Colorful Style Sheets

Why was CSS introduced as a separate language from HTML?

• To manage the style of web pages separately from content

• To enhance HTML's structural capabilities

• To replace HTML entirely

• To improve HTML's ability to link documents

What is the main advantage of separating content and style in web development?

• It simplifies the coding process

• It reduces the need for HTML

• It enables independent modification of content and style

• It allows for faster loading times

What is a CSS selector used for?

• To specify which HTML elements a rule applies to

• To link CSS files to HTML

• To define the style of a webpage

• To create new HTML elements

Which part of a CSS rule specifies the feature being styled?

• Declaration

• Value

• Property

• Selector

Which CSS property is used to change the text color of an element?

• font-color

• color

• text-color

• background-color

What is the purpose of the 'font-family' property in CSS?

• To adjust the spacing between letters

• To change the color of the font

• To set the size of the font

• To define the typeface of the text

Where should the style tag be placed in an HTML document?

• In the body section

• In the head section

• At the end of the document

• In the footer section

What is the role of the style tag in HTML?

• To define the structure of a webpage

• To link external CSS files

• To embed CSS rules within an HTML document

• To create new HTML elements

How can CSS improve the scalability of a website?

• By reducing the number of HTML tags

• By allowing styles to be defined once and applied across multiple pages

• By increasing the speed of the website

• By simplifying the HTML structure