Quiz #2

Topics

A cheat-sheet (of some sort) will be provided for specific CSS properties and values.

• XPath: know how to read and write xpaths
  • Completely specified xpath.
  • // paths
  • [@attr="val"] attribute selection
• <a> attributes: title and rel="nofollow"
• Three layers of a web document. (Know these so you could get full credit on a fill-in-the-blank question.)
• CSS formatting
  • Pros and cons of inline styling, document level styling, and external stylesheets.
  • Terms: property, value
  • Colors: names, hexadecimal format
  • Tag attributes: class, id
• CSS selectors (not all of them): universal, element type, class, ID; selector grouping, descendant selector
• CSS cascade: know the four-step algorithm
  • Do not worry about the specifics of origins and importance.
  • Do know the specifics of specificity (including the four-number ranking).
  • Do know the specifics of declaration order.
  • Do know the specifics of inheritance.
• CSS box model
  • Calculating sizes of content, padding, border, and margin edges
  • One-, two-, and four-argument versions of properties like padding.
  • Collapsing margins.