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3. CSS Basics

Lesson Overview

In this lesson, you’ll familiarize yourself with CSS and learn

• CSS (cascading style sheets) terms and terminology

• The difference between HTML and CSS formatting

• How the cascade, inheritance, descendant, and specificity theories affect how browsers apply CSS formatting

• How CSS can format objects

• New features and capabilities of CSS3

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