| The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and begin learning how to put your knowledge into practice. Quiz | 1. | What is the purpose of an element type selector? | | 2. | How does the block value differ from the inline value in the display property? | | 3. | How do you associate an external CSS style sheet with an XML document? | | 4. | How would you specify that a style rule is supposed to indent the first line of a paragraph by 6 centimeters? |
Quiz Answers | 1. | An element type selector selects an element of a given type and applies a style or set of styles to it. This represents the simplest approach to using CSS because there is a one-to-one mapping between element types and styles. | | 2. | When used with the display property, the block value results in an element being placed on a new line by itself, whereas the inline value places the element next to the content immediately preceding it. | | 3. | The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is used to associate an external CSS style sheet with an XML document. | | 4. | To specify that a style rule is supposed to indent the first line of a paragraph by 6 centimeters, you would use the style setting text-indent:6cm. |
Exercises | 1. | Modify the news.css style sheet so that the story text is displayed with a gray background. Hint: This requires you to modify the style rule for the p element. | | 2. | Modify the news.css style sheet so that the letter spacing of the headline is wider than normal. |
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