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Identify the thing or syntax pattern you see
Start with the language
Work your way from general to specific
Describe specifically where you might
find or place this thing
If what you see looks like short-hand for
something else, explain the long-form version
Provide one other example of that thing

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<h1>

answer

HTML
Element
Level-1 heading tag

Example

<p>

#ff0066;

answer

CSS
Statement that declares color of text
Value assigned to 'color' property
Purple-ish

Example

#660099

href

answer

HTML
Anchor element
Hypertext Reference attribute

Example

src

??? = ""???""

answer

HTML
Attribute and assigned value
Assigned value placed in double-quotes

example

type="text/css"

??? { ???:???; }

answer

CSS
Selector >
Declaration >
Statement...
Property: Value;

example

li { text-align: center; }

p

answers

HTML or CSS
If HTML: Tag
If CSS: Selector

example

ul

li span a

answer

CSS
Child Selector
Selects ALL anchor tags
that are children of span tags
that are children of list items

example

div li span

border

answer

CSS
Property
Shorthand for these three properties
on each side of selected element:
border-{side}-width
border-{side}-style
border-{side}-color

example

margin

name=""???""

answer

HTML
Form attribute
More specifically, input element attribute
Usually placed on radio buttons
Groups similarly-named radio buttons
Prevents multiple selections within group

example

for="name"

*

answer

CSS
Selector
Universal Selector
Asterisk character
Used to select all elements on the page
Least specific selector

example

#unique

how'd you do?

Syntax

By rmion

Syntax

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rmion