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

  • Different methods for writing CSS rules and markup

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

  • New features and capabilities of CSS3

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