Merge pull request #18 from valgaze/patch-1

[Fix] Styling SVGs

Author: zachmargolis

z01-web-standards.md

@@ -148,9 +148,10 @@ SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML format used for
 drawing. You can think of SVG in a lot of the same terms as the DOM -- there are elements with parents and
 children and attributes, and you can respond to the same mouse/touch events.
 
-Even CSS styles can apply to SVG elements. The CSS attribute names for SVG
+Even CSS styles and selectors can apply to SVG elements. The CSS attribute names for SVG
 come from the SVG definition, so they are sometimes different from their
-HTML brethren.
+HTML brethren. (For example, to change the background color of a div to red you would select it then set  `background-color: red` but to get the same effect on an SVG rectangle you would instead use the attribute `fill: red` since an SVG rect doesn't respond to `background-color` for styling.)
+
 
 SVG defines tags for lots of basic shapes, like `<rect>` and `<circle>` and `<line>`.