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Knowing what CSS elements to change

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Knowing what CSS elements to change

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- [Instructor] Welcome to what is arguably the most difficult video of this entire course. Let's walk through the Developer Tools and get comfortable with them. Now, when you're determining which CSS element to work with, it can frankly get a little tricky. As you can see from the Explorer pane, HTML has got a lot of elements. And Microsoft calls a lot of elements at a time, and SharePoint works from a multitude of style sheets. And elements are nested within elements that are nested, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So if you're not an expert site developer, there's going to be some trial and error as you experiment with your site styles. Now, the good news is that you can do your experimentation right here without the risk of breaking anything. Anything that you do on this page is temporary, and you can set everything back to default by simply refreshing the browser page. So let me show you how to find an element, how to make a change, and how to test it. I'm going to start with…

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