CSS - Cascading Style Sheets Basics

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets Basics

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3 Ways to apply CSS

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3 Ways to apply CSS

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Inline, Internal, External

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Inline

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css added directly into our HTML tags using the style attribute. example: <p style="color: red">text</p>

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Benefits of a CSS

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1. Can apply formatting to several elements without rewriting code. 2. Can be used over and over again for many different html pages. 3. Can describe where elements are displayed 4. Saves a lot of work.

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cascading

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sheets can apply formatting when more than one style applies

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Internal (also as embedded)

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Applies to the whole html page and is inserted directly into the head tags and enclosed by style tags. <head> <title>my title</title> <style> p { color:red; } </style> </head>

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Font Families

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1. serif: A font with little decorative bits on the ends of the strokes that make up letters. 2. sans-serif: A plain-looking font. It doesn't have decorations 3. cursive: A scripty font. It looks like cursive writing.

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external css link

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goes between head tags on html document and has three attributes 1. type - should always be equal to "text/css" 2. rel - should always be equal to "stylesheet" 3. href - should point to file name example: <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="CSS file name"/>

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CSS

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Cascading Style Sheets - the skin and makeup our our web page. It allows us to apply styling

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external

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separate css file created on a text editor - it is not part of the html document, and can be used again and again for multiple web pages p { color:red; } a { color:blue; }

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em

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Is a relative measurement. One em is equal to the default size, two ems would double the default font-size, and .5 ems would half the default size.

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.css

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the file extension for external css

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comments

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/my comment/

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Hexadecimal values

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1. counting base 16 with each digit being the number 0-9 and the letters a-f. 2. they always start with a # and are up to 6 digits long 3. not case-sensitive, capitalization doesn't count

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Pixels

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dots on your computer screen that make up an image

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style sheet

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describes how our html file should look and holds our formats

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declaration block

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contains one or more properties and values separated by semi-colons and contained within curly braces example : p (selector) { color:blue; font-size:12px; Declaration Block font-family: Arial; }

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Selectors

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the name for the tags that we use in CSS. In HTML they are call tags - such as the "p" tag, in CSS they are called selectors - such as the "p" selector

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