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One of the parts a CSS rule located in the curly brackets and
separated by a semicolon, such as "font-weight: bold" in "span {
font-weight: bold; background: yellow; }".
E
element
A part of a document starting with an opening tag and ending
with a closing tag, such as "<p><b>keyword</b> is
important</p>".
P
TODO
Define property.
R
rule
A string consisting of a selector, the "{" character, style
specification, and the "}" character, such as "p { color: green;
}".
S
selector
The part of a CSS rule before the first "{".
shorthand property
A CSS property that enables the setting of multiple properties
as once, such as "border" as contrasts to non-shorthand properties
"border-style" and "border-width".
T
tag
The opening and closing sequence of characters of an element,
such as "<p>" or "</p>". To be distinguished from
element.
U
user agent
The client application such as a web browser used with a
particular network protocol, such as http: or ftp:.