3. CSS Basics Bonus Online Lesson

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you will gain some valuable hands-on skills and experience writing and working with cascading style sheets to format your HTML structural elements.

Formatting objects

After the last few exercises, you may be thinking that styling text with CSS is perplexing and difficult to understand. But hold onto your hats. The next concept you’ll explore is even more complex and controversial: object formatting. Consider object formatting as specifications directed at modifying an element’s size, background, borders, margins, padding, and positioning. Since CSS can redefine any HTML element, object formatting can basically be applied to any tag, although it’s most commonly directed at HTML ...

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