Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts

Adam is SitePoint's head of newsletters, who mainly writes Versioning, a daily newsletter covering everything new and interesting in the world of web development. He has a beard and will talk to you about beer and Star Wars, if you let him.

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Table Formatting
Table Formatting

Read Table Formatting and learn HTML & CSS with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

rel (HTML attribute)
rel (HTML attribute)

The rel attribute defines the relationship that the linked resource has to the document from which it’s referenced. In most cases, this resource will simply be "stylesheet", which means, not surprisingly, “the referenced document is a style sheet.”

background-repeat (CSS property)
background-repeat (CSS property)

The background-repeat property controls whether or not a background-image is repeated (tiled), and if it is repeated, the property defines along which of the specified axes (x, y, or both) the image is to be repeated.

span (HTML element)
span (HTML element)

For an element that offers no semantic information about the content inside and also provides no styling change, or any other visual change to speak of, the lowly span element is one of the most useful elements in your HTML toolbox.

Descendant Selector (CSS Selector)
Descendant Selector (CSS Selector)

The descendant selector matches all elements that are descendants of a specified element. The first simple selector within this selector represents the ancestor element—a structurally superior element, such as a parent element, or the parent of a parent element, and so on.

ISO 2 Letter Language Codes
ISO 2 Letter Language Codes
Web

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background-position (CSS property)
background-position (CSS property)

The background-position property defines the initial position of a background-image. We can repeat the image from this position using the background-repeat property, which will cause the image to be repeated in both directions along the specified axis: see background-repeat.

Collapsing Margins
Collapsing Margins

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href (HTML attribute)
href (HTML attribute)

The href defines the document to which the link leads. This may be a web page in the same directory, a page somewhere else on the same server, a location within the current page, or a web page—or any another kind of document—stored on another server.

id (HTML attribute)
id (HTML attribute)

The id attribute provides a unique identifier for an element within the document. It may be used by an a element to create a hyperlink to this particular element.