Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd ...

Chapter 2: The EssentialsFigure 2-6How It WorksIn Figure 2-6 you see the hierarchy of a style sheet, drilling down from the whole style sheet to the valueof a property. In Example 2-1, you included a single CSS rule with a selector that provides properties forall six HTML heading elements, , , , , , and . The selector contains threedeclarations that provide the browser with information about how to style the aforementioned headingelements. The browser is told to give each heading text colored maroon in the sans-serif font face, and abottom border that’s gray, solid, and one pixel thick.CSS CommentsAs is the case with HTML, comment text can be added to style sheets as well. In a multipage template,this helps you remember which CSS rule applies to what or why it was added in the first place. CSS supportsmultiline comments that begin with a forward slash and an asterisk (/*) and terminate with anasterisk and a forward slash (*/). This is illustrated in Figure 2-7.Figure 2-729