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Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by David Karlins, Doug Sahlin
August 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
816 pages
21h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1: Styling Text with CSS

In This Chapter

check.png Understanding modern web design

check.png Creating a CSS document

check.png Defining colors for the web

check.png Setting CSS text properties

check.png Creating styles for a link state

check.png Nesting and grouping styles

check.png Using templates

In Book III, Chapter 2, we break down the role of HTML documents — the basic foundation for web pages. But an HTML page without a style sheet is like a model without a wardrobe. Like a football player without helmet, jersey, and pads. Like a mime without face paint. Like a sumo wrestler without . . .okay, we’ve gone far enough with analogies here. But they illustrate the relationship between HTML and CSS. Without CSS, web pages have no style.

This chapter shows you how to create a cascading style sheet (CSS) file that defines the style and layout of ...

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