elements you are going to be manipulating with CSS code and you should have a solid understanding of them before continuing on in this tutorial. Lucky for you, they are pretty simple to comprehend!
CSS Selector: Where It Fits In
In a typical CSS statements you have the following:
SELECTOR { PROPERTY: VALUE }
Where the property is the CSS element you wish to manipulate and "VALUE" represents the value of the specified property.
CSS Selector Name
The selector name is a direct relationship to the HTML tag you want to edit. If you wanted to change the way a paragraph tag behaved the CSS code would look like:
p { PROPERTY: VALUE }
The above example is a template that you can use whenever you are manipulating the paragraph HTML element. In the next lessons we will teach where to place your CSS and why and where you should use CSS.
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