Articles Tagged
terminology

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Metaphors We Web By

Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper.

Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […]
The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jan 31, 2022

sizing terminology

How to describe element’s natural sizing behavior

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PPK: When introducing width and height I explain that by default width takes as much horizontal space as it can, while height takes as little vertical space as possible. This leads to a discussion of these two opposed models that I excerpt below. My question is: which names do I give to these models?

Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 26, 2021 (Updated on Mar 29, 2021)

selectors terminology

CSS Vocabulary

This is a neat interactive page by Ville V. Vanninen to reference the names of things in the CSS syntax. I feel like the easy ones to remember are “selector,” “property,” and “value,” but even as a person who writes …

Chris Coyier on Jul 27, 2020

syntax terminology

CSS Ruleset Terminology

I was trying to think of the name of a thing in the CSS vernacular the other day. It made me think we should have some kind of reference right here on CSS-Tricks, as a site with CSS in the …

Chris Coyier on May 3, 2017