Topic Overview

The Anatomy of Style

Select and Declare Elements and Rules Property and Value The Anatomy of Style TODO

Style Guide

Where to Style The Style Attribute The Style Element The Style Document TODO

CSS Documents

Directory Placement The <link> Tag Relationship Type Href The <link> Element TODO

CSS Applied

Comments in CSS Understanding Styling Applying Style TODO

Selector Types

Universal Selectors Element Selectors Class Selectors ID Selectors TODO

Cascading

Cascading in CSS Rules Order Specificity Setting Importance TODO

Exploring Color

Specifying Color Color Names RGB Values Hex Codes Saturated Color Desaturated Color (Grayscale) Combining Colors TODO

Using Color

Background Color Text Color Opacity Basic Positioning Color Palettes TODO

CSS Fundamentals

While we’ve explored styling briefly in the previous topics, it’s time to really dig into learning how to use CSS or Cascading Style Sheets.

CSS is a language that tells browsers how to display and style content in HTML. It does not change the content itself, but will allow you to specify color, font, size, background, padding, alignment, how pages resize, if certain elements should be hidden, and many more qualities.

The objectives of this topic is:

Understanding how CSS functions in web design, and the many ways one can use it in their pages.
Experimenting with CSS selectors and declarations, and linking stylesheets to HTML pages.