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  • 1. The font-size property
  • 2. Relative font size
  • 3. The line-height property
  • 4. Relative line height
  • 5. The font-family property
  • 6. The font-weight property
  • 7. The text-align property, horizontal text alignment
  • 8. The text-align property does more than just align text
  • 9. The vertical-align property, vertical text alignment
  • 10. Use of the background in typography
  • 11. The color property, text color
  • 12. Using spacing to format text
  • 13. The white-space property, space management
  • 14. Assignment of styles to preformatted text
  • 15. The text-decoration property, underlining as well as other effects
  • 16. The font-style property, italics
  • 17. The text-transform property, character case
  • 18. Polish the footer
  • 19. Summary of “Typography”
  • 20. Test: Designing an article
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Assignment of styles to preformatted text

In this assignment, we’ll style a <pre> block containing a <code> element. You only need to uncomment the two sets of CSS rules, one at a time. Let’s look at what each set does.

Let’s look at the first goal.

The first rule for pre and code that we are uncommenting is responsible for assigning the text color (color) and background color (background-color). We found out about these properties in one of the previous assignments.

Next we will cover the border and border-radius properties. We have already tried working with these properties a little, so you already know them.

The only other property in the first uncommented rule is font-family. Do you recall that we talked about monospace fonts in the assignment about font-family? We have used this font family here. A monospaced font is one in which all characters occupy the same amount of space. This was the type of font that was once used in typewriters, but now it is popular in code editors. Even right now you are entering text in a monospace font in the code editor that you are using to complete the assignment.

OK, let’s continue. The following are separate rules for pre and code, which are used to set the padding. You are also already familiar with them.

Now move on to the second goal.

After completing the first goal, you’ll see that the <code> element inside <pre> has some unwanted styles. Let’s override them using the cascade.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>The website of a beginning coder</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> </head> <body> <header> <p class="page-title">Blog</p> <nav class="blog-navigation"> <a href="index.html">Return to home</a> </nav> </header> <main> <article> <h1>Day Six. How I Didn’t Understand Anything (Continued)</h1> <p>Today I visited several websites to see how they are laid out. I saw some quotes and unfamiliar <code>&lt;cite&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;blockquote&gt;</code> tags.</p> <p>I didn’t understand how these two tags differ from each other. I closed the browser. I’ll figure it out tomorrow.</p> <p>But look at what I saw.</p> <pre><code>&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Wits gain value when strength loses it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;cite&gt;Jason Statham&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;</code></pre> </article> <aside class="partnership"> Your ad could go here </aside> </main> <footer> Website footer </footer> </body> </html>
CSS
body { padding: 0 30px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: #222222; background: #ffffff url("img/bg-page.png") no-repeat top center; } h1 { font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; } h2 { font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; } a { color: #0099ef; text-decoration: underline; } del { color: #ff4400; } ins { color: rgb(105, 178, 83); } .page-title { font-weight: bold; font-size: 36px; line-height: 42px; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; text-align: center; } .avatar-container { text-align: center; } .avatar { border-radius: 50%; } .blog-navigation { margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 20px; color: #ffffff; background-color: #4470c4; border: 5px solid #2d508f; } .blog-navigation h2 { margin-top: 0; } .blog-navigation ul { padding-left: 0; list-style: none; } .blog-navigation li { margin-bottom: 5px; } .blog-navigation a { color: #ffffff; } .skills dd { margin: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #e8e8e8; } .skills-level { font-size: 12px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; background-color: #4470c4; } .skills-level-ok { background-color: #47bb52; } .partnership { margin: 30px 0; padding: 30px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; background-color: #4a87fa; background-image: url("img/bg-partnership.svg"); } footer { margin-top: 30px; } /* 1 pre, code { background-color: #fafaff; border: 1px solid #c6c4f4; border-radius: 4px; color: #3632ad; font-family: "Courier New", "Courier", monospace; } pre { padding: 5px; } code { padding: 2px 5px; } */ /* 2 pre code { background-color: transparent; border-radius: 0; border: none; } */

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    1. Uncomment the first set of rules for pre and code in the CSS editor,
    2. and then uncomment the second set of rules.

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