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CrossWord Solution

This page contains the solution to the CrossWord game for March 28, 2026.

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Across

  1. Property with a list of font names to apply to the text
    FONT-FAMILY
  2. A display value or a shorthand property (for that display)
    FLEX
  3. An animation pr a flex direction
    REVERSE
  4. (right-to-left) The most popular absolute unit
    XP (PX)
  5. A value for scroll-behavior
    SMOOTH
  6. Property that specifies if/how words should be hyphenated when text wraps
    HYPHENS
  7. The core buildig block of CSS
    RULE
  8. Mathematical function that effectively removes the sign of a number
    ABS
  9. Logical operator that can be used to combine multiple media features in a media query
    OR
  10. Sets how page, column, or region breaks should behave inside a box
    BREAK-INSIDE
  11. Pseudo-class that represents any non-disabled element
    ENABLED
  12. Shorthand property used to reset every property to its initial or inherited value
    ALL
  13. Overflow value or an obsolete property
    CLIP
  14. Selector for an ordered list in HTML
    OL
  15. A text-wrap value
    BALANCE
  16. (right-to-left) A trigonometric function
    NIS (SIN)
  17. A blend mode related to lightness
    LUMINOSITY
  18. Value of font-stretch to select the narrowest possible face from the family
    ULTRACONDENSED
  19. Unit used in radial gradients
    TURN
  20. Pseudo-class that represents an element that is being hovered
    HOVER
  21. Physical unit equivalent to 1 centimeter
    CM
  22. (dep.) Keyword to indicate the increment growth in a random value function
    BY
  23. A white French nutty color?
    BLANCHEDALMOND
  24. Property that indicates the stack order of a positioned element
    Z-INDEX
  25. Anagram of a color name for a brownish-yellow-ish color
    EIEGB (BEIGE)
  26. Descriptor of @counter-style used to specify counter symbols then the descriptor value is additive
    ADDITIVE-SYMBOLS
  27. Transform-??? sets the point for an element transformation
    ORIGIN
  28. End segment in a keyframes rule
    TO
  29. Property that overrides the flex/grid alignment for the element
    ALIGN-SELF
  30. Viewport units define sizes relative to the browser ____
    WINDOW
  31. Keyword that causes the element to take the computed value of the parent's property
    INHERIT
  32. A text-box-trim value
    TRIM-END
  33. The > is the ____ combinator in CSS
    CHILD
  34. Relative unit representing the height of capital letters in the current font
    CAP
  35. A selector using the #
    ID
  36. A citrusy color
    ORANGE
  37. Keyword used in text-combine-upright to indicate the following value is an integer
    DIGITS
  38. (right-to-left) Unit representing a millisecond
    SM (MS)
  39. Value of isolation indicating tha a new stacking context must be created
    ISOLATE
  40. Unit relative to the font size of the root element
    REM
  41. Keyword used in a conic-gradient to indicate the center of the gradient
    AT
  42. Unit representing a millimeter
    MM
  43. (right-to-left) A unit representing the line-height of the element
    HL (LH)
  44. Media type intended for paged braille printers
    EMBOSSED
  45. Shorthand property that styles the insertion indicator
    CARET
  46. Function that returns the smallest of the parameters
    MIN
  47. (dep.) Media type for television devices
    TV
  48. Relative unit that represents 1% of the size of the viewport in the inline direction
    VI
  49. Property that specifies how a mask images are repeated
    MASK-REPEAT
  50. The default value for an easing function
    EASE
  51. Property used in flexbox and grid to specify the element's arrangement
    ORDER
  52. A color function
    HSL
  53. A dark blue color
    NAVY
  54. (right-to-left) A unit representing an angle
    DAR (RAD)
  55. Media type for printers
    PRINT
  56. grid-??? is a shorthand property for specifying areas, columns, and rows
    TEMPLATE
  57. Inverse trigonometric function
    ATAN
  58. Enumerated data type that can have the values block, inline, x, or y
    AXIS
  59. Pseudo-class that matches elements based on the direction of the text contained in them
    DIR
  60. A rounding strategy for round()
    UP
  61. Function used to include a file
    URL
  62. (right-to-left) :last-__-type pseudo-class
    FO (OF)
  63. Media feature to detect if users has enabled a setting to minimize the amount of motion
    PREFERS-REDUCED-MOTION
  64. A flex direction
    ROW

Down

  1. A grid fraction unit
    FR
  2. A custom property type
    NUMBER
  3. (bottom-to-top) Value used to disable a font-feature-settings feature
    FFO (OFF)
  4. Viewport unit representing 1% of the largest possible viewport height
    LVH
  5. (bottom-to-top) A display value
    TABLE-CELL
  6. Absolute-size keyword that indicates a really tiny font size
    XXSMALL
  7. Pseudo-class for inputs that pass validation
    VALID
  8. At-rule used to define the initial values for a transition or animation
    STARTING-STYLE
  9. The optional third value in a box-shadow is the ____ radius
    SPREAD
  10. Trigonometric function
    ASIN
  11. A text-box-trim value
    TRIM-BOTH
  12. Value for the direction property
    RTL
  13. A position value
    ABSOLUTE
  14. Pseudo-class that selects inputs that pass validation after user interaction
    USER-INVALID
  15. (bottom-to-top) Pseudo-element that matches WebVTT captions
    EUC (CUE)
  16. Mathematical constant equivalent to 3.14159...
    PI
  17. (bottom-to-top) Selector for an unordered list in HTML
    LU (UL)
  18. Unit thtat represents the size of the CJK water ideograph
    PI
  19. (bottom-to-top) a dark red color
    NOORAM (MAROON)
  20. A flex/grid alignment option
    END
  21. A horse-riding related color name
    SADDLEBROWN
  22. Property to set some spacing around a side of the element
    MARGIN-RIGHT
  23. In break-after, it forces a page break right after the principal box
    ALWAYS
  24. Position function used for printing
    RUNNING
  25. A text-wrap or an HTML element
    PRE
  26. Property that can be used for chaining slots to achieve the appearance of non-rectangular slots
    CHAINS
  27. (bottom-to-top) Relative font-size unit
    ME (EM)
  28. Unit representing an inch
    IN
  29. (bottom-to-top) Reserved word optional part of a text-emphasis-style value
    DELLIF (FILLED)
  30. A type of cursor generally represented by a magnifying glass with a plus sign
    ZOOM-IN
  31. Pseudo-class function that takes a list of selectors as arguments
    IS
  32. Shorthand property to specify the space outside the element
    MARGIN
  33. Same as 56 across
    TO
  34. Function that reads an attribute of an element and returns its value
    ATTR
  35. Descriptor of @property that specifies the default value of the property
    INITIAL-VALUE
  36. Cursor value usually represented by an arrow pointing up/north
    NRESIZE
  37. Pseudo-class of the element that is currently being focused
    FOCUS
  38. (bottom-to-top) Default mask-composite value
    DDA (ADD)
  39. A border style or a hilltop
    RIDGE
  40. Pseudo-class that represents elements that are not enabled
    DISABLED
  41. A list style type
    DISC
  42. A border-collapse value that indicates that adjacent cells will have shared borders
    COLLAPSE
  43. Pseudo-element representing a text segment that was flagged as grammatically incorrect
    GRAMMAR-ERROR
  44. Pseudo-class that matches an input whose value is within the min and max limits
    IN-RANGE
  45. Property that specifies how hidden overflow content will be shown (e.g. ellipsis) or hidden (e.g. clip)
    TEXT-OVERFLOW
  46. Pseudo-class that selects elements that have no children
    EMPTY
  47. In linear gradients, this keyword is used to preceed the direction
    TO
  48. One of the main four positioning properties
    LEFT
  49. Pseudo-class close to :where() but with more specificity
    IS
  50. Unit to measure angles
    DEG
  51. A measure of time representing one millisecond
    MS
  52. With ___-all, a value for word-break
    KEEP
  53. (bottom-to-top) grid-auto-flow value to attempt to fill in holes in the grid
    ESNED (DENSE)
  54. Property or transform function to spin elements
    ROTATE
  55. Unit equivalent to 1 Hertz
    HZ
  56. Function to retrieve the value of a custom property
    VAR
  57. (bottom-to-top) Function that removes the decimals up or down
    DNUOR (ROUND)
  58. (bottom-to-top) Shorthand property in the Speech Module to specify a silence with a specific duration
    TSER (REST)
  59. (bottom-to-top) Unit that represnts the dots per centimeter
    MCPD (DCPM)
  60. (bottom-to-top) With table-___ a value of display
    LLEC (CELL)
  61. Keyword used across multiple properties to indciate the value will be automatically calculated by the browser
    AUTO
  62. (bottom-to-top) Unit that represents a point
    TP (PT)
  63. (bottom-to-top) Unit specified in the CSS Speech module that represents a decibel
    DB