Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
Course Outline
Cascading stylesheets enhance website design and management by extracting common formatting and layout elements to one or more shared external files or stylesheets.
On this one-day course you will build on your existing knowledge of (X)HTML, learning how to alter text with custom classes, create varying link styles and control the positioning of elements within a web page.
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CSS Course Contents
The following represents possible course material for our CSS course, however we can tailor all our courses to specific requirements as required.
CSS Fundamentals
- Constructing a style rule standards
- Constructing selectors
- Inheritance
- The cascade
- Specificity
- Selecting elements by Name
- Selecting elements by Class or ID
- Creating external stylesheets
- Linking external stylesheets
Basic Formatting Techniques
- Font families
- Font colour and emphasis
- Font size
- Spacing
- Text decoration
Stylesheet Layout Techniques
- Designing your pages
- The CSS box model
- Absolute and relative positioning
- Background colours
- Margins and padding
- Floating elements
Skills Gained:
- CSS2.1 basics
- Redefining (X)HTML tags
- Creating custom classes
- Understanding inheritance, specificity and hierarchy
- Organising stylesheets
- Layout techniques
Course Details
- Duration: 1 day
- Time: 10:00-16:00
- Cost: £289.00 + VAT
- Dates: Call for details