A CSS rule in its most basic form is made up of two components: a selector and a declaration.
.example { color: #000; }
As the term suggests, a selector is utilized to target (select) a certain element or certain elements and enable you to style them. On deviantART, you'll find that the selector mostly in use is class, which is depicted as a dot, prominently used in tandem with the HTML tags <div> and <span>.
Following the selector comes a curly bracket. The curly brackets contain the actual style information, in other words: the declarations. In the above example, the declaration is:
color: #000
A declaration consists of two p