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Gain insights into CSS to tailor web styles, layout, text, and images. Discover core CSS fundamentals, adding colors, controlling layouts, and exploring essential CSS animation functions to create professional web pages.

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a document type and the associated scripting language that describes the presentation of HTML documents. Using the CSS language, you can control the look and feel of web pages by defining layout, text, and image properties to be applied in a wide array of contexts. This course is a comprehensive introduction to both writing and implementing CSS. Using the document hierarchy model, you’ll learn how to tailor web styles to specific areas. With your hierarchy defined, you’ll dive deep into CSS fundamentals, adding colors, text styles, and backgrounds to your web page. After you’ve defined these elements, you’ll use CSS to define layouts around pictures and text flow and completely control your web page’s look. You’ll wrap up by exploring the essential animation functions of CSS. By the end of this course, you’ll have functional mastery of Cascading Style Sheets and the CSS scripting language. You’ll be prepared to build professional web pages with your code.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Working knowledge of modern web design best practices using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for HTML documents

A strong understanding of CSS scripting and its document hierarchy model

Deep familiarity with stylizing text, images, backgrounds, and layouts using CSS

The ability to animate key web page elements using advanced CSS functions

Hands-on experience building a professional web page using CSS

Working knowledge of modern web design best practices using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for HTML documents

Content

54 Lessons8 Quizzes

Introduction to CSS

2 Lessons

Get familiar with CSS basics and ways to integrate it into web projects.

Course Introduction

Adding CSS to Your Projects

CSS Selectors

7 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of CSS selectors to target elements efficiently and enhance web styling.

Selecting Elements

Using the Document Hierarchy

Using Attribute Selectors

Part 1: Pseudo-Classes

Part 2: Pseudo-Classes

Pseudo-Elements

Quiz Yourself: CSS Selectors

CSS Core Concepts

2 Lessons

Break apart the cascade, inheritance, and specificity, ensuring effective CSS management and clean code.

The Cascade and Inheritance

Specificity

CSS Units

5 Lessons

Find out about CSS units for responsive and adaptable web design.

Introduction to Units

Pixels and Percentages

Font-Relative Units

Viewport Units

Quiz Yourself: CSS Units

CSS Fundamentals

9 Lessons

Deepen your knowledge of CSS box model, margins, padding, borders, fonts, lists, and calculations.

Quiz Yourself: CSS Fundamentals

Backgrounds & Colors

7 Lessons

Investigate CSS backgrounds, color customization, and accessibility considerations in web design.

Hex

Quiz Yourself: Backgrounds and Colors in CSS

Regarding Accessibility

CSS Layout

11 Lessons

Build on understanding CSS layout techniques, including display properties, positioning, flexbox, grid, and media queries.

The Display Property

Positioning

The z-index Property

Part 1: Flexbox Basics

Part 2: Flexbox Basics

Flexbox: Centering and Flex Items

Grid: Basics and Item Positioning

Grid: Justifying and Aligning Content

Centering

Media Queries

Quiz Yourself: CSS Layout

Animating Your CSS

5 Lessons

Try out CSS filters, transforms, transitions, and animations for dynamic web effects.

Quiz Yourself: Animating CSS

CSS Architecture

5 Lessons

Unpack the core of feature queries, CSS variables, resets, normalization, and vendor prefixes.

Feature Queries

Custom Properties (Variables)

Resets and Normalization

Vendor Prefixing

Quiz Yourself: CSS Architecture

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Conclusion

1 Lessons

Explore your newfound CSS skills for continued learning and questions. Best wishes!

Wrapping Up!

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Course Author:

Timothy Robards

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