COM271, Week 4

Typography and the Box Model

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Answer these questions by reviewing the notes for week 4. Hand in at beginning of class, week 5.

  1. What is the CSS attribute to choose a font family?
  2. What determines whether a user's browser displays the font family that I choose in my style sheet?
  3. For these rules, what pixel size is my paragraph font?
    body{font:16px arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}
    p{font-size:1.5em;}
  4. Write a single rule to make links inside my div for navigation appear with arial font, 14px, right-justified, and with 5 pixels padding on top and bottom, 7 pixels on the right, and no underlining.
  5. Write four rules, all doing the same thing: to color all of my paragraph text medium grey.
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  6. Write a rule to start an ordered list with a lower-case "a" marker.
  7. Write a rule to make links inside a table cell identified as "navigate" turn red (text color) with a green background whenever a user hovers a mouse over them.
  8. What rule would cause the list items in an unordered list to have no marker?



    This code is used for the next 2 questions:
    <style>
    h1{margin:10px 5px;padding:3px 5px 5px 7px;border:3px inset #f93;}
    p#first{margin:5px 5px 2em 15px;padding:5px;border:1px solid red;}
    img.pix1 {float:left;margin:15px 10px 15px;}
    </style>
    ...
    <h1>Bob's Auto Mart</h1>
    <p id="first" style="margin:15px">This week's
    <img class="pix1" src="images/sales.jpg" /> specials:</p>

  9. How much vertical space is there between the content areas of the paragraph and the header?
  10. How much horizontal space is there between the image and the content of the paragraph?

These questions are worth one point each. Grades for each question are 0 or 1 (no partial credit). Total points this review: 10. At the end of the course, total points will be added, divided by 100, and that fraction will be applied to 20% of your grade (maximum points from reviews is 20% of grade). See Assignments and Grading.