Style property
A style property is a named setting or interface attribute that specifies or exposes a presentation characteristic of an element or view.
Web Design Playground, Second Edition
A CSS property is a named presentation characteristic whose value can be specified by a CSS declaration and may be inherited by descendants.
- How it is used
- Uses properties to instruct browsers how selected page elements should look.
- How deep it goes
- Defines property-value declarations and style-rule syntax, then demonstrates font-size without surveying every property.
- Examples
- Demonstrates font-size on h1 and font-style: italic on span elements.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via the Web Design Playground by editing CSS properties and checking rendered results.
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Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Second Edition
A DOM element property that exposes its inline style declarations as a mutable CSSStyleDeclaration object.
- How it is used
- Uses the style property to read and change inline element styles while working with the DOM.
- How deep it goes
- Details initialization, mutation, naming, and stylesheet exclusion; points to computed styles without developing them.
- Examples
- Demonstrates reading inline color, changing border width, and converting hyphenated CSS names for a getter-setter helper.
- What you can do after
- Apply the DOM style property to read and assign inline styles using JavaScript property names.
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WordPress Power Toolkit: Harness AI to build next-level websites
A CSS property is a named styling attribute whose value specifies an aspect of an element's presentation.
- How it is used
- Uses properties to control an HTML element’s visual presentation and test changes interactively in the browser Inspector.
- How deep it goes
- Explains property:value pairs, selectors, applied rules, cascade overrides, and live editing without detailing CSS internals.
- Examples
- Shows an h1 rule using color, font-family, font-size, and font-weight, plus an overridden property in the Inspector.
- What you can do after
- Diagnose/debug with the browser Inspector, test property values, and identify why a style is applied or overridden.
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Web Design Playground
A named CSS declaration component that specifies one aspect of styling, such as color, font size, or margins.
- How it is used
- Uses named settings to control specific aspects of a web page’s presentation.
- How deep it goes
- Defines properties, values, units, punctuation, and rules, while deferring additional style-definition methods.
- Examples
- Uses h1 with font-size, text-align, and font-variant declarations, including a 36px value.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via CSS rules and experiment with property values in the Web Design Playground.
Related concepts
- background-repeat propertyincludes · The CSS background-repeat property specifies whether and how a background image repeats within an element’s background area.
- border-radiusincludes · The CSS border-radius property specifies the radii of an element’s corners, producing rounded corners.
- paddingincludes · Padding is the addition of extra space, values, or data around or within a structure to satisfy size, alignment, layout, or processing requirements.
- CSSused by · CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a stylesheet language for specifying the presentation and layout of structured documents and user interfaces.
- box-shadowincludes · The CSS box-shadow property renders one or more shadows around or within an element’s box.
- font-family propertyincludes · The CSS font-family property specifies a preferred typeface or ordered sequence of fallback typefaces for rendering text.
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