Quick CSS: Day 1 - What is CSS?

Quick CSS Day 1 - What is CSS? From Jennifer Kyrnin, your Guide to Web Design / HTML Hello and welcome to CSS 101, a five day course on Cascading Style Sheets or CSS. After successfully completing this course on CSS you will know how to create a style sheet and add it to your XHTML documents. This course will cover many aspects of CSS, such as: font properties background properties text properties box properties CSS positioning In this lesson, you will learn about the basics of Cascading Style Sheets. From what they are, to basic syntax, to an explanation of cascading, and more. Syllabus Day 1 What is CSS CSS Syntax Placing CSS in a Document An Explanation of Cascading Your First Style Sheet Cascading Style Sheets Introduction What is CSS? Invented in 1997, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are just now starting to be widely used among browsers and Web developers are learning to be more comfortable with them. Those of you who use HomeSite 4.0 know that they are eventually going to take the place of tags such as FONT, which have been deprecated in HTML 4.0. CSS Syntax When you create a style sheet, you need to make sure that the syntax is correct. You will find that CSS is a fairly easy language to learn, but it has many applications. Placing CSS in a Document Style sheets can be placed in three places in a document, in the HEAD, in an external file, or within an individual tag. Style calls placed within an individual tag will only affect that tag, while other style calls affect the entire page or any page that loads the style sheet. An Explanation of "Cascading" Cascading is something that makes CSS even more powerful. Learn what it means for a style sheet to "cascade". Your First Style Sheet As I said above, Cascading Style Sheets are fairly easy to use and apply. After only one lesson you will have created a style sheet on a Web page. This email is written by: Jennifer Kyrnin Web Design / HTML Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Quick CSS' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com