What is the css / html `root` element?

Question

I have just recently started using NetBeans IDE (6.9.1) and have used it to add a stylesheet to my site-in-progress.

To my surprise, one element was automatically ad

Answer 1

root is a placeholder for any element in the stylesheet template of NetBeans IDE. It is like a dummy variable in calculus. Please put the cursor on y: in the root { display: block; } delete y: and type y. IDE pops up into the instruction window that gives valueable information. They conducts to such a meaning for the root as just a dummy variable. Examples are em {display: inline; } Additionally, root is the point where you begin, the deepest ancestor of the html tree with branches and leaves. So at the beginning you have a box by default and all branches and leaves follow that default unless you change their default display, when they occur, to other values such as, say, inline.