If we talking about CSS syntax, it’s a set of rules or a combination of selector and declaration block.
CSS Syntax as given −
selector { property: value }
In the given figure you can see: Selector
inside the blue circle, all these are called selectors. All selectors are HTML tags and you can apply style on them.
Declaration: Every declaration contains CSS property and value. The declaration block contains one or more properties and values, which are separated by semicolons. See the above figure.
Example#1 In the given example all <p> text will be an increase in size and the text color will be black.
p {
font-size: 12px;
color: #000;
}
In above example, where
- p is the selector or HTML tag
- font-size, color are the properties and
- 12px, #000 are the values