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#foo {
color: red;
}
"color" is the property.
"red" is the value.
"color:red" is the declaration.
Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/syndata.html#declaration
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mdix commented Mar 9, 2012

Isn't it a declaration + an assignment, instead of just a declaration? Ok, well ... implicit declaration.

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fvsch commented Mar 9, 2012

@mdix: I don’t remember that CSS uses the concept of assignment to describe its syntax.

This is a declaration:

property: value

This is a series of declarations (term not used in the spec):

property: value;
property: value;

This is a declaration block:

{
    property: value;
    property: value;
}

This is a rule set:

selector {
    property: value;
    property: value;
}

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mdix commented Mar 9, 2012

Jepp, it doesn't. I think it would be best described as implicit declaration.

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