In this hands-on course, James Williamson demonstrates the concepts that form the foundation of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), including styling text, adding margins and padding, and controlling how images display. The course also explores the tools needed to work with CSS, the differences between embedded and external styles, how to use selectors to target elements, and what to do when styles conflict. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
- Exploring default styling
- Writing a selector
- Setting properties
- Working with common units of measurement, including ems and pixels
- Structuring HTML correctly
- Understanding the cascade and inheritance
- Setting a font family, font size, text color, and more
- Understanding the box model
- Styling container elements
- Working with RGB vs. HSL values
- Styling drop shadows
- author
- James Williamson
- subject
- Web + Interactive, CSS, HTML + HTML5
- software
- CSS
- level
- Beginner
- duration
- 8h 49m
- released
- Nov 22, 2011
- DVD
- purchase
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