CSS Reference

The Formsort studio has many CSS properties that can be manipulated to customize your flow - here is a reference to help get your bearings.

Property
Definition

The space around the outside of the border of the element

The space between the content and the border of the element

Rounds the corners of an element's outer border edge

Sets the color of an element's border

Sets width of an element's border

Adds a shadow effect around an element's frame

Sets the minimum height of an element

Sets minimum width of an element

Sets the maximum width of an element

Let's you rotate, scale, skew, or translate an element

Sets the horizontal alignment of the content inside a block

The degree to which the content behind and element can be seen

Sets the size of the font. For responsive design, rem units are recommended

Sets the weight (i.e. boldness) of the font. The weights available are determined by the font-family that is set

Sets the space between lines of text

CSS Length Units

Formsort recommends using a handful of the CSS length units when defining the dimensions of a component (margin, padding, font size, etc.)

Property
Definition

rem

Relative to the base font size. This allows responsiveness if there are differing base font sizes for different viewports.

Ex: 1.5rem of a base font size of 16px will be 24px (1.5 x 16 = 24).

vw

Relative to 1% width of the viewport.

100vw = 100% width of the viewport.

vh

Relative to 1% height of the viewport.

100vh = 100% height of the viewport.

%

Relative to the size of the parent element. Setting 100% on a width property will allow that component to take 100% of the available space.

px

Pixel: 1px = 1/96th of 1in. Pixels are unresponsive, so it is considered an absolute value. If the content max width setting is 500px, it will be 500px regardless of changes in the viewport size (you can use dimension variables to create responsiveness, however) Useful for setting an absolute value for a component, i.e. a base font size or the width/height of a component.

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