CSS Web Development
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one of the most important technologies on the web today. Students will learn how to style their web sites so that those sites are usable, compact, good looking, consistently displayable, and quick and efficient to change if so desired.
Course Content
What is CSS?
Why Use CSS?
Authoring CSS
2.Understanding CSS
Reviewing XTHML Basics
Understanding CSS Terminology
*Adding Rules to a Style Sheet
*Adding Selectors
*Working with Multiple Declarations
Working with Style Sheets
*Embedding a Style Sheet
*Importing an External Style Sheet
*Importing Multiple Style Sheets
*Linking to an External Style Sheet
Managing Style Sheets
3.Selectors and the Cascade
Understanding Selectors
*Using ID Selectors
*Using Class Selectors
*Using Grouped Selectors
*Using Descendant Selectors
Looking for the Sources of Styles
*Resolving Style Conflicts with Specificity
*Using the !important Declaration
*Understanding Inheritance
*Revealing Unstyled Documents
*Applying User Style Sheets
4.Using CSS to Affect Page Layout
*Introducing the CSS Box Model
*Creating Simple Floats
*Using Floats for Page Layout
*Fixing Column Drop
*Clearing Essentials
*Containing Floats
*Displaying Elements
5.Setting Foreground and Background Properties
*Adding Foreground Colors
*Adding Color to Background Elements
*Adding Background Images
*Repeating Background Images
*Positioning Background Images
*Using the Background Shorthand Declaration
6.Setting Typography
*Altering Line Height
*Using Font Families
*Changing Font Styles and Weights
*Sizing Fonts
*Writing Font Shorthand Declarations
*Aligning Text Horizontally
*Aligning Text Vertically
*Transforming Text
*Decorating Text
7.Using Margins and Borders to Create Whitespace and Separation
*Understanding Margins
*Adding Borders
*Implementing Padding
*Using Negative Margins
*Collapsing Margins
8.Styling Tables
*Styling Tables and Captions
*Styling Table Cells
*Styling Column Classes
*Styling Links in Table Cells
9.Styling for Print
*Styling for Specific Mediums
*Creating a Print Style Sheet
*Hiding Elements for Print
*Styling for Print
*Applying Complex Styling for Print
*Creating a Footer
10.Bringing It All Together
Working with Text Fragments
*Setting Global Styles
*Defining Masthead and Navbar Colors
*Laying Out the Navbar
*Using Columns
*Setting Content Styles
*Starting the Sidebar
*Creating the Sidebar Boxes
*Completing the Sidebar
*Styling the Table
*Creating the Footer