Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Training Course

Cascading style sheets enhance web site design and management by extracting common formatting and layout elements to one or more shared external files or style sheets.

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.

Course Details

Duration: 1 day
Dates: 18th Jan 2008, 29th Feb, 18th Apr, 16th May, 20th Jun
Location: Our CSS training course is held at 26 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
Fees: £279.00 + VAT

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CSS Course Contents

The following represents a typical breakdown of our CSS course, however we can tailor all our courses to specific requirements as required.

Stylesheet Basics
  • Constructing a style rule standards
  • Constructing selectors
  • Selecting elements by Name
  • Selecting elements by Class or ID
  • Creating external stylesheets
  • Linking external stylesheets
Basic Formatting Techniques
  • Font families
  • Font color and emphasis
  • Font size
  • Spacing
  • Text decoration
Stylesheet Layout Techniques
  • Designing your pages
  • The CSS box model
  • Absolute positioning
  • Background and foreground colors
  • Margins and padding
  • Using the z-index
  • Floating elements
  • Vertical alignment techniques
  • Liquid design principles

Skills Gained:

  • CSS2 basics.
  • Redefining (X)HTML tags.
  • Creating custom classes.
  • Understanding inheritance and hierarchy
  • Organising Style Sheets
  • Advanced <DIV> layout techniques.
  • Liquid CSS design.