8 CSS Properties to Know if You are a Beginner

Written by vladpasca5 | Published 2021/03/07
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1. Display

This property specifies the display behavior of an element.
The most important values: block, inline, inline-block and none.

2. Width and Height

These 2 properties are used to set the height and width of an element.
They can have the following values: auto, length, %, initial or inherit.

3. Margin and Padding

These 2 dictate the spaces between elements on your website.
Margins affect the area outside of borders whereas paddings affect areas inside the border.

4. Border

This one is pretty much self self explanatory, it specifies what kind of border to display.
A few if the values that are allowed: solid, none, hidden, dotted, double.

5. Floats

This property is used for positioning and formatting content on your website.
It can have the following values: left, right, none, inherit.

6. Flexbox

The Flexible Box Layout Module, makes it easier to design flexible responsive layout structure without using float or positioning.
Some properties are: justify-content, align-items, align-content.

7. Color

This property specifies the color of text.
You can use an RBG value, a HEX value or the actual name of the color you want to use.

8. Background

This property specifies the background color of an element.
You can use the same values like for the color property.

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Written by vladpasca5 | I'm a 16 years old self-taught web developer. The technologies I work with are: Javascript HTML and
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/03/07