(UPI) Chapter 3: Web Design with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language used to style HTML elements, enabling web developers to control the layout, appearance, and design of web pages. Through external, embedded, and inline styles, CSS separates content from design, improving website consistency and flexibility.
Key features of CSS include selectors for targeting elements, advanced color specifications (e.g., RGBA, HSL, HSLA), font styling, and advanced techniques like using custom properties for reusable values and theming.
Developer tools and CSS custom properties enhance the workflow by making it easier to inspect and modify styles, ensuring responsive and user-friendly web designs.
Exploring Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) enhance web design by separating content from visual styling. This allows for consistent formatting, easy updates, and improved usability across websites.
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Introduction to CSS
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External Style Sheets (Best Practice)
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Multiple Style Sheets
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Embedded Styles (Not Recommended for Large Projects)
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Inline Styles (Avoid if Possible)
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How to Use Basic CSS Selectors to Apply Styles to HTML Elements
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Example HTML and CSS Code Using Selectors
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When and How to Use the Normalize Style Sheet for Browser Compatibility
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Exploring Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Quiz
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Advanced CSS Color Specifications: RGBA, HSL, and HSLA
CSS offers advanced color options like RGBA, HSL, and HSLA, enabling precise control over color properties such as transparency, hue, saturation, and lightness. These specifications allow for more nuanced and accessible designs, making it easier to create visually appealing and adaptive color schemes.
7 stepsStyling and Formatting Fonts in CSS
In CSS, controlling the font family and font size of text is crucial for achieving a readable and aesthetically pleasing design. The font-family and font-size properties allow you to define the type and size of fonts in a flexible way that adapts to different devices and user preferences. This section explains how to set these properties effectively.
CSS Selectors to Apply Styles
To apply more specific styling to HTML elements, CSS provides advanced selectors that let you target elements based on their relationships, attributes, and other characteristics. Here’s a closer look at relational selectors, combination selectors, and attribute selectors.
6 stepsCreating a Styled Web Page with CSS and HTML
This section outlines how to structure a web page using HTML and CSS for various formatting and styling needs, such as applying colors, text shadows, and positioning elements. We’ll look at the HTML structure and the accompanying CSS file that styles the page.
2 stepsUsing Developer Tools and Custom CSS Properties
This stage covers the use of browser developer tools for inspecting and debugging CSS, along with the implementation of CSS custom properties (variables). Developer tools allow real-time inspection and modification of HTML and CSS, while custom properties enable reusable, maintainable, and flexible styling across a webpage, including global and scoped variables for easier management and theming.
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