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<link href="https://www.codecademy.com/stylesheets/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">

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Style Tag

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<style></style> Goes inside the head function in HTML

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Class Name

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To select HTML elements by their class, a period must be put before the class name. brand would be .brand

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Chain Selectors

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Having an html element with two or more selectors at once. Ex. h1.special { } You can also do this with nested elements

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Tag Name

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CSS can select HTML elements by using an elements tag name. A tag name is the word (or character) between HTML angle brackets. Ex. p { }

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Creating a CSS File

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Use the .css file extension, like so: style.css

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CSS id

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First, html needs an id attribute. Then you can can select html elements by their id attribute. To select this in css, put # before word Ex. #large-title

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Classes and IDs

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Classes are meant to be used many times, whereas an ID styles only one element

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Nested Elements example

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<ul class='main-list'> <li> ... </li> <li> ... </li> <li> ... </li> </ul> .main-list li { }

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Important (Specific ID)

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Can override any style no matter what it is. Should almost never be used.

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Multiple Selectors

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Original: h1 { font-family: Georgia; } .menu { font-family: Georgia; } More concise: h1, .menu { font-family: Georgia; }

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Linking the CSS File

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Use <link> element. Must be placed within the <head> element of HTML Requires 3 attributes: href, type, rel href: like the anchor element, must be a path to the CSS file type: Describes type of document you are linking, in this case text/css rel: Describes relationship between HTML file and CSS file, in this case value should be: stylesheet

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Linking with a Relative Path

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<link href="./style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">

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