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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Posted by Pasha Patterson
Pasha Patterson
202 Points

what are curly braces?

What are curly braces?

index.html 
<h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
<h1> Pasha Patterson<h1> <style>

2 Answers

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Hey Pasha,

Curly braces or brackets are punctuation marks. There is a left bracket { and a right bracket }.

Here they are in use with CSS:

.myClass {
    color: red;
}

They are primarily used to start and end a block of code.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

These are braces :point_right: {} — and these are brackets :point_right: []

There is a difference. :smile:

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Hey Steven,

Take a look here. Curly braces are also sometimes called curly brackets. The keyword is curly.