As I mentioned at the beginning of the course, Foundation offers a…comprehensive way of changing styles globally, via the use of compass and SAS.…This is the best way to style your Foundation site, since…you can easily manage global variables, ensuring your page will change uniformly.…However, it is possible to not use SAS, and…simply use regular old CSS to override Foundation core styling.…You can use a tool like Firebug to…identify the styles affecting an element on your…page, then copy those styles to a custom…style sheet and then override the desired values.…
You can also write your own custom styles in the style sheet, like…new styles that are outside the realm of Foundation, for styling your web page.…And, of course, you can combine both working with SAS and…working with CSS overrides when working on your site as well.…So, let's take a look at how we might override a style using CSS.…The html document that I'm working with here is called styling.html.…If you go ahead and copy that out of your exercise files folder into your…
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6/13/2014- Downloading and installing Foundation 5
- Introducing grids
- Centering columns
- Nesting grids
- Styling text, lists, buttons, panels, and more
- Adding navigation bars and dropdown menus
- Creating a responsive lightbox
- Adding an image carousel
- Integrating responsive images
- Adding tooltips
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 4s
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Using the exercise files1m 11s
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1. Overview of Foundation 5
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What is Foundation?2m 27s
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Examining Foundation's files7m 43s
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2. The Grid System in Foundation
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Introducing the small grid11m 5s
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Applying offsets in the grid4m 51s
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Centering columns4m 29s
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Nested grids6m 32s
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Block grids4m 27s
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Source ordering4m 18s
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Solution: Create a grid3m 41s
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3. CSS Overview
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Text alignment options6m 6s
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Styling buttons3m 19s
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Including panels2m 47s
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Styling thumbnails2m 53s
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Challenge: Style a page1m 5s
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Solution: Style a page3m 2s
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4. Navigation Systems
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Adding side navigation2m 34s
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Adding dropdown menus2m 43s
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Working with Off Canvas6m 15s
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5. JavaScript Effects
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 24s
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Video: Overriding Foundation's core CSS