What You Should Already Know
Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:
- HTML
If you want to study these subjects first, find it from our HTML Tutorial Series.
What is CSS?
- CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
- Styles define how to display HTML elements
- Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem
- External Style Sheets can save a lot of work
- External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files
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Styles Solved a Big Problem
HTML was never intended to contain tags for formatting a document.
HTML was intended to define the content of a document, like:
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
When tags like <font>, and color attributes were added to the HTML 3.2
specification, it started a nightmare for web developers. Development of large
web sites, where fonts and color information were added to every single
page, became a long and expensive process.
To solve this problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created CSS.
In HTML 4.0, all formatting could be removed from the HTML document, and stored
in a separate CSS file.
All browsers support CSS today.
CSS Saves a Lot of Work!
CSS defines HOW HTML elements are to be displayed.
Styles are normally saved in external .css files. External style sheets enable you to change the
appearance and layout of all the pages in a Web site, just by editing one single file!
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Complete CSS Tutorial
| First Step - Beginner CSS | Second Step - Intermediate CSS | Third & Final Step - Advanced CSS |
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| 1. Applying CSS | 1. Class and ID Selectors | 1. Display |
| 2. Selectors, Properties, and Values | 2. Grouping and Nesting | 2. Page Layout |
| 3. Colors | 3. Pseudo Classes | 3. At-Rules |
| 4. Text | 4. Shorthand Properties | 4. Pseudo Elements |
| 5. Margins and Padding | 5. Background-images | 5. Specificity |
| 6. Borders | ||
| 7. Putting It All Together |