Lesson 5 - Overview Of CSS

5.3 CSS Syntax

CSS syntax comprises selectors and declarations, which work together to style HTML elements effectively.

• Selector: Specifies the HTML element that will be styled.
• Declaration: Contains a property and a corresponding value, defining the style to be applied to the selected element.

Example:

p {
    color: blue;
    font-size: 14px;
}

In the example above:

• p is a selector targeting all <p> (paragraph) elements on the webpage.
• Inside the curly braces {}, color: blue; sets the text color of paragraphs to blue, and font-size: 14px; adjusts the font size to 14 pixels.

Understanding selectors and declarations is fundamental to effectively styling webpages with CSS. We'll delve deeper into these concepts in our upcoming lesson.