client

A computer system or process requesting something from another system or process in a client-server relationship. The opposite of 'server'.

Browsers are clients because they request information from websites' servers.

by Pathoschild March 21, 2005

property

In CSS, a property is the attribute applied to a selector.

selector {text-weight: bold;}

If we give the property 'text-weight' with the value 'bold' to a selector, any occurance of text within that selector in the XHTML will be bold.

by Pathoschild March 21, 2005

selector

In CSS, the XHTML tag that the formatting is applied to.

XHTML:
<selector>blah.</selector>

CSS:
selector {property: value}

by Pathoschild March 21, 2005

clientside

Anything that occurs on the client in a client-server relationship. For example, CSS is clientside because it's used by the browser. PHP is serverside (the opposite of clientside) because it's used by the server.

XHTML and CSS are clientside languages.

by Pathoschild March 21, 2005

tag

A sequence of characters used in XHTML and CSS to provide information to the browser, such as text formatting.

<b></b> are, respectively, the opening and closing bold tags. This tells the browser to make the enclosed text heavier than normal.

by Pathoschild March 21, 2005

value

in CSS, the value is the amount or setting of a property.

selector {text-weight: bold;} - this applies the value 'bold' to the property 'text-weight'.

by Pathoschild March 21, 2005

specificity

A CSS rule that states that in case of conflict, the properties of the most specific selector is applied.

For example: if we make all tables bold, but make all table cells have a normal weight, the latter rule will be applied. This is because "table cell" is more specific than "table".

by Pathoschild March 21, 2005