November 2011
Beginner
513 pages
9h 33m
English
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INTRODUCING CSS
- What CSS does
- How CSS works
- Rules, properties, and values
In this section, we will look at how to make your web pages more attractive, controlling the design of them using CSS.
CSS allows you to create rules that specify how the content of an element should appear. For example, you can specify that the background of the page is cream, all paragraphs should appear in gray using the Arial typeface, or that all level one headings should be in a blue, italic, Times typeface.
Once you have learned how to write a CSS rule, learning CSS mostly involves learning the different properties you can use. So this chapter will:
- Introduce you to how CSS works
- Teach you how to write CSS rules
- Show you how CSS rules apply to HTML pages
The remaining chapters in this section will look at all of the various CSS properties you can use.
UNDERSTANDING CSS: THINKING INSIDE THE BOX
The key to understanding how CSS works is to imagine that there is an invisible box around every HTML element.
On this page, you can see a basic HTML page.
On the right hand page, you can see the same HTML page, but I have added outlines to each of the elements so that you can see how CSS will treat each element as if it lives inside its own box.
BLOCK & INLINE ELEMENTS
You may remember from pages 185-186 ...
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