--- title: Propriedades de taquigrafia slug: Web/CSS/Shorthand_properties tags: - CSS - Guía - Referencia translation_of: Web/CSS/Shorthand_properties ---
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Propriedades de taquigrafia são propriedades de CSS que lhe permitem definir simultaneamente os valores de várias outras propriedades de CSS. Ao utilizar uma propriedade de taquigrafia, pode escrever folhas de estilo mais concisas (e muitas vezes mais legíveis), poupando tempo e energia .

The CSS specification defines shorthand properties to group the definition of common properties acting on the same theme. For instance, the CSS {{cssxref("background")}} property is a shorthand property that's able to define the values of {{cssxref("background-color")}}, {{cssxref("background-image")}}, {{cssxref("background-repeat")}}, and {{cssxref("background-position")}}. Similarly, the most common font-related properties can be defined using the shorthand {{cssxref("font")}}, and the different margins around a box can be defined using the {{cssxref("margin")}} shorthand.

Tricky edge cases

Even if they are very convenient to use, there are a few edge cases to keep in mind when using them:

  1. A value which is not specified is set to its initial value. That sounds anecdotal, but it really means that it overrides previously set values. Therefore: 
    background-color: red;
background: url(images/bg.gif) no-repeat left top;
    will not set the color of the background to red but to {{cssxref("background-color")}}'s default, transparent, as the second rule has precedence.
  2. Only the individual properties values can inherit. As missing values are replaced by their initial value, it is impossible to allow inheritance of individual properties by omitting them. The keyword inherit can be applied to a property, but only as a whole, not as a keyword for one value or another. That means that the only way to make some specific value to be inherited is to use the longhand property with the keyword inherit.
  3. Shorthand properties try not to force a specific order for the values of the properties they replace. This works well when these properties use values of different types, as the order has no importance, but this does not work as easily when several properties can have identical values. Handling of these cases are grouped in several categories:
    1. Shorthands handling properties related to edges of a box, like {{cssxref("border-style")}}, {{cssxref("margin")}} or {{cssxref("padding")}}, always use a consistent 1-to-4-value syntax representing those edges:
      border1.png The 1-value syntax: border-width: 1em — The unique value represents all edges
      border2.png The 2-value syntax: border-width: 1em 2em — The first value represents the vertical, that is top and bottom, edges, the second the horizontal ones, that is the left and right ones.
      border3.png The 3-value syntax: border-width: 1em 2em 3em — The first value represents the top edge, the second, the horizontal, that is left and right, ones, and the third value the bottom edge
      border4.png

      The 4-value syntax: border-width: 1em 2em 3em 4em — The four values represent the top, right, bottom and left edges respectively, always in that order, that is clock-wise starting at the top (The initial letter of Top-Right-Bottom-Left matches the order of the consonant of the word trouble: TRBL)
    2. Similarly, shorthands handling properties related to corners of a box, like {{cssxref("border-radius")}}, always use a consistent 1-to-4-value syntax representing those corners:
      corner1.png The 1-value syntax: border-radius: 1em — The unique value represents all corners
      corner2.png The 2-value syntax: border-radius: 1em 2em — The first value represents the top left and bottom right corner, the second the top right and bottom left ones.
      corner3.png The 3-value syntax: border-radius: 1em 2em 3em — The first value represents the top left corner, the second the top right and bottom left ones, and the third value the bottom right corner
      corner4.png

      The 4-value syntax: border-radius: 1em 2em 3em 4em — The four values represent the top left, top right, bottom right and bottom left corners respectively, always in that order, that is clock-wise starting at the top left.

Propriedades de segundo plano

A background with the following properties ...

background-color: #000;
background-image: url(images/bg.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;

... can be shortened to just one declaration:

background: #000 url(images/bg.gif) no-repeat left top;

(The shorthand form is actually the equivalent of the longhand properties above plus background-attachment: scroll and, in CSS3, some additional properties.)

Propriedades de tipo de letra

The following declarations ...

font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: .8em;
line-height: 1.2;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;

... can be shortened to the following:

font: italic bold .8em/1.2 Arial, sans-serif;

This shorthand declaration is actually equivalent to the longhand declarations above plus font-variant: normal and font-size-adjust: none (CSS2.0 / CSS3), font-stretch: normal (CSS3).

Propriedades de margem

With borders, the width, color, and style can be simplified into one declaration. For example, the following CSS ...

border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #000;

... can be simplified as:

border: 1px solid #000;

Margin and padding properties

Shorthand versions of margin and padding values work the same way. The following CSS declarations ...

margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: 5px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 5px;

... are the same as the following declaration. Note that the values are in clockwise order, beginning at the top: top, right, bottom, then left (TRBL, the consonants in "trouble").

margin: 10px 5px 10px 5px;

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