CSS Vocab: A Handy Cheat Sheet for Naming the Bits
Frontend pros know the basics—selector, property, value—but the finer terms often slip the mind. Ville V. Vanninen has put together an interactive reference page that pinpoints the exact names for every piece of CSS syntax.
For instance, a property paired with its value via a colon forms a declaration. Group those together, curly braces included, and you’ve got a declaration block—distinct from a plain block, which can appear inside an at-rule and consequently hold complete rule-sets of its own. The site is a quick goto whenever the nomenclature blurs.
