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CSS

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌsiː es ˈes/abbreviationCore term

In software engineering, CSS means: Cascading Style Sheets: the language that controls how HTML looks, including colors, fonts, spacing, layout and animations.

In Turkish: CSS, basamaklı stil sayfaları

How it is used

Said letter by letter. You write, add and override CSS, and work with CSS files, CSS frameworks such as Tailwind or Bootstrap, and CSS-in-JS libraries. 'Cascading' refers to the rules that decide which style wins.

Example sentences

  1. I fixed the alignment with three lines of CSS.

  2. Our CSS is getting messy, so we're moving to Tailwind.

Common collocations

  • write CSS
  • override CSS
  • CSS file
  • CSS framework
  • inline CSS
  • HTMLHyperText Markup Language: the standard language for describing the structure and content of a web page, such as headings, paragraphs, links and images.
  • selectorThe part of a CSS rule that says which elements the styles apply to, for example p, .button or #header.
  • propertyIn CSS, the name of a style feature you set, such as color, margin or display, which is always paired with a value.
  • stylesheetA file or block of CSS rules that describes how a page should look; most sites link to one or more external .css files.
  • specificityThe rule CSS uses to decide which style wins when several rules target the same element: ID selectors beat class selectors, which beat element selectors.

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