Video description
This course is perfect for anyone who wants to learn CSS. CSS allows you to control the look and feel of your website and enables you to create a separation of presentation and content, including layout, colors, and fonts. This course includes a lot of source code for you to experiment with to save you time so you can start coding CSS straightaway. You will learn how to find the top resources and links to help you learn the basics of styling; how to use classes and IDs to select elements; explore all colors for fonts and backgrounds; move content display properties; learn how to apply styling to common HTML such as lists, tables, and more; use floats to position elements and content; use the box model—padding, margins, border, height, and width for each element; CSS positioning; work with Hyperlinks, and make your sites look good.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the world wide web, alongside HTML and JavaScript. CSS is used to define styles for your web pages, including the design, layout, and variations in display for different devices and screen sizes.
By the end of this course, you will be able to use CSS on your website confidently.
What You Will Learn
- Cover the fundamentals of styling
- Learn how to use classes and ID to select elements
- Explore all the colors for fonts and backgrounds
- Learn the box model including the padding, margins, border, height, and width
- Make use of hyperlinks to improve the appearance
- Apply CSS styling to HTML elements
Audience
This course is intended for people who are new to HTML, web designers, anyone interested in learning more about CSS, and those who wish to add style to HTML.
About The Author
Laurence Svekis: Laurence Svekis is an experienced web application developer. He has worked on multiple enterprise-level applications, hundreds of websites, business solutions, and many unique and innovative web applications. He has expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL and is also passionate about web technologies, web application development, programming, and online marketing with a strong focus on social media and SEO. He is always willing to help his students experience what technology has to offer and looks forward to sharing his knowledge and experiences with the world.
Table of contents
- Chapter 1 : Introduction to Writing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
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Chapter 2 : Writing CSS
- CSS Inline Style
- Style Tag Styling
- Creating and Using CSS File
- CSS Selection and Classes
- CSS Colors
- CSS Background Property
- CSS Display Property
- CSS for List Items
- Exercise 1 Style a Simple Website
- Measures and Properties CSS
- Divs and Spans
- Styling Text CSS
- CSS Font Family
- Google Fonts CSS
- CSS Exercise 2
- CSS Floats Images
- CSS Float Elements
- CSS Box Model
- Exercise 3 CSS
- Exercise 3 Solution
- Chapter 3 : More CSS Properties
- Chapter 4 : Quick CSS Website Project Tester
- Chapter 5 : Bonus Section
Product information
- Title: An Introduction to CSS - A Complete Beginner to Expert Course
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781838554996
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