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  • 7. Shorthand properties
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Inheritable properties

In fact, not all properties are inherited in CSS. Inheritable properties mainly include the properties that determine the parameters of how text is displayed.

font-size, font-family, font-style, font-weight, color, text-align, text-transform, text-indent, line-height, letter-spacing, word-spacing, white-space, direction, and others.

The following are also inheritable properties: list-style, cursor, visibility, border-collapse, and several other properties. But they are used much less frequently.

Inheritable properties can and should be set through the parent elements in accordance with the document structure.

For example, text parameters are often not changed inside of the major blocks on the page, such as the menu, main content, and information bars. Therefore, the general text parameters (color, size, and typeface) are usually indicated in the styles of these major blocks.

Let’s check whether a couple of properties were properly inherited, and at the same time let’s make the blog texts more “airy” and make them easier to read.

You can find the entire list of inheritable properties in the CSS standard. If yes is marked next to the property in the Inherited? column, then the property is inherited by default, unless explicitly declared to be different. If you want a normally non-inherited property inherit, you can do property: inherit.

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<!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> <h1>The website of a beginning coder</h1> </header> <main> <img class="avatar" src="img/raccoon.svg" width="80" height="80" alt="Avatar"> <nav> <h2>Recent Posts</h2> <ul> <li><a href="day-1.html">Day One. How I forgot to feed the cat</a></li> <li><a href="day-2.html">Day Two. I want to become a coder</a></li> <li><a href="day-3.html">Day Three. My cat is offended at me</a></li> <li><a href="day-4.html">Day Four. How I almost got sick</a></li> <li><a href="day-5.html">Day Five. I am relaxing</a></li> <li><a href="day-6.html">Day Six. How I failed to understand anything</a></li> <li><a href="day-7.html">Day Seven. Muffin gave me an assignment</a></li> <li><a href="day-8.html">Day Eight. It’s getting very serious</a></li> <li><a href="day-9.html">Day Nine. Or more precisely night</a></li> <li><a href="day-10.html">Day Ten. Summing up</a></li> <li><a href="day-11.html">Day Eleven. Everything should be taken in moderation</a></li> <li><a href="day-12.html">Day Twelve. Everyone loves cookies</a></li> <li><a href="day-13.html">Day Thirteen. I found an article</a></li> <li><a href="day-14.html">Day Fourteen. A New Format</a></li> <li><a href="day-15.html">Day Fifteen. The Selfie Gallery</a></li> </ul> </nav> <section> <p>Greetings to everyone! Welcome to my first site. Up until just recently I had no idea what a coder does for a living, but now I have found <a href="https://htmlacademy.org/courses">interactive courses in HTML and CSS</a> and I have set myself the goal of becoming one. I even was assigned an instructor, Muffin, who does not allow me to slack off and will track my progress.</p> <p>My first assignment is to keep a diary and honestly write about all of my accomplishments.</p> </section> <section> Skills section </section> </main> <footer> Website footer </footer> </body> </html>
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body { padding: 0 30px; /* Change values of the properties below */ font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: #222222; } h1 { font-size: 36px; line-height: normal; } h2 { font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; } a { color: #0099ef; text-decoration: underline; } .avatar { border-radius: 10px; } nav { margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 20px; background-color: #4470c4; color: #ffffff; } nav a { color: #ffffff; } ul { list-style: none; padding-left: 0; } footer { margin-top: 30px; }

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    1. Change the value of the font-size property to 16px for the body tag,
    2. and then set the value of the line-height property to 26px and see how the changes are reflected in all of the elements.

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