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Since there are a ton of CSS properties, you don’t and shouldn’t memorize all of them. Let’s review a few of the most common and useful ones to make your websites stand out.

Background

The background property is used mostly as is to set colors and styles to the background frame. However, you actually can use specific background-properties, which effect more specific elements in your background. You can go through exactly what you can do with that in this documentation.

Borders

Two useful properties; border and border-radius. border does exactly what you think- sets the border of your element. border-radius is neat, since that’s what let’s you give rounded corners to your elements. For more details, look through this documentation.

Box-shadow

Adds a shadow effect to your element. Can create depth on your pages, but should be used sparingly as to not create unreadable sites.

Overflow

Used to help manage content that doesn’t fit in the element it’s stored in. You can pass useful strategies like scroll to give your elements a scrollbar, or clip if you want your content cut off.