Pathoschild's definitions

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

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