Headhunters are calling to you and want to check your skills as fast as possible. What are they asking about? Its rather simple questions but in some cases they know the tricky ones.
So what are they asking?
Question: (CSS)
Box model
Do you know the box model? Please list elements of box model.
This is the most fundamental knowledge about DOM and CSS. Elements of box model:
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margin
-
padding
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border
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content
So when you have a box described with CSS:
.box {
width: 100px;
height: 200px;
border: 10px solid #000;
margin: 20px;
padding: 30px;
}
what is total width/height and total height of the box?
total_width = width + border_left + border_right + padding_left + padding_right + margin_left + margin_right
so in this case it is
total_width = 100 + 10 + 10 + 20 + 20 + 30 + 30 = 220 (px)
total_height = height + border_top + border_bottom + padding_top + padding_bottom + margin_top + margin_bottom
so in this case it is:
total_height = 200 + 10 + 10 + 20 + 20 + 30 + 30 = 320 (px)
How can we omit problem of counting total width and height? Use a box-sizing in CSS.
Question: (CSS)
Clearfix
What is clearfix?
This is mostly connected with floating elements in HTML / CSS. In case you have a container with floating elements you need to clear floatings in the last element of childrens of this container. In oldschool way:
HTML code:
<div class="container">
<div class="floating"></div>
<div class="floating"></div>
<div class="clearboth"></div>
</div>
CSS
.container {}
.floating { width: 100px; height: 100px; float: left; }
.clearboth { clear: both }
Now when you have :before and :after pseudoelements you dont need to waste one more tag in HTML for clearing floats. You just need to add a CSS to container:
.container:before,
.container:after {
content: "";
display: table;
}
.container:after {
clear: both;
}
or create a standard reusable clearfix in same way:
.container:before,
.clearfix:after {
content: "";
display: table;
}
.clearfix:after {
clear: both;
}
