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Lecture4-Intro To CSS

The document contains a review of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) concepts including CSS rules, selectors, properties and values. CSS allows styling of HTML elements through rules that contain selectors and declarations. Connecting CSS to HTML can be done inline, embedded in <style> tags, or through an external CSS file. Common CSS selectors include elements, IDs, classes, and descendant selectors. CSS declarations use properties and values to style elements, such as color, font, text decoration and others.

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Lecture4-Intro To CSS

The document contains a review of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) concepts including CSS rules, selectors, properties and values. CSS allows styling of HTML elements through rules that contain selectors and declarations. Connecting CSS to HTML can be done inline, embedded in <style> tags, or through an external CSS file. Common CSS selectors include elements, IDs, classes, and descendant selectors. CSS declarations use properties and values to style elements, such as color, font, text decoration and others.

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Introduction to

CSS
Review Question 1
Which tag is used to create a link to another page?

1. <p>
2. <li>
3. <a>
4. <em>
Review Question 1
Which tag is used to create a link to another page?

1. <p>
2. <li>
3. <a>
4. <em>
Review Question 2
What are the two tags that nest directly within the <html> tags?
Review Question 2
What are the two tags that nest directly within the <html> tags?

<head> and <body> tags


Review Question 3
How does this HTML element look like in a browser:

<ul><li>1</li><li>2</li><li>3</li></ul>

(a) (b) (c)

1. 1 ● 1 A. 1
2. 2 ● 2 B. 2
3. 3 ● 3 C. 3
Review Question 3
How does this HTML element look like in a browser:

<ul><li>1</li><li>2</li><li>3</li></ul>

(a) (b) (c)

1. 1 ● 1 A. 1
2. 2 ● 2 B. 2
3. 3 ● 3 C. 3
CSS = Cascading Style Sheets
CSS is a "style sheet language" that lets you style the elements on your page.

CSS is works in conjunction with HTML, but is not HTML itself.

So far we learned how to create a paragraph like this in HTML, but how do we add
color to it or align it to the center of the page?
The CSS Rule
The CSS Rule
● A block of CSS code is a rule.
● The rule starts with a selector.
● It has sets of properties and values.
● A property-value pair is a declaration.
Connecting CSS to HTML
Now we know what does a CSS rule look like. But how do we use it to customize our
HTML pages?

1. Inline
2. Embedded
3. External
Connecting CSS to HTML: Inline
Uses the HTML attribute style.

<p style="color:red">Some text.</p>

How would you change the color of all the paragraphs in your HTML file to red?
Connecting CSS to HTML: Inline
Uses the HTML attribute style.

<p style="color:red">Some text.</p>

How would you change the color of all the paragraphs in your HTML file to red?

Add style attribute to all paragraph elements! Not very efficient.


Connecting CSS to HTML: Embedded
Inside <head> element, use <style> tag.
<head>
<style type="text/css">
p {
color: blue;
font-size: 12px;
}
</style>
</head>

You can change the style of all paragraphs in one HTML file at once.

What if you have multiple HTML files?


Connecting CSS to HTML: Linked
Put CSS rules in a separate file and use a link to that file in all your HTML files.

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
....
</body>
</html>

myfile.html
Connecting CSS to HTML: Linked
Why do we prefer linked CSS files?

● Shared resource for several pages.


● Reduced file size & bandwidth
● Easy to maintain in larger projects.
● Preferred by nerds everywhere!
CSS Syntax
Selector: HTML element(s) that you want to apply the CSS
rule to

Declaration: property-value pairs that define the style you selector {


plan to use on HTML element property: value;
property: value;
● Declarations end with a semicolon property: value;
}
● Declaration groups are surrounded by curly brackets.

p {
color: red;
}
CSS Selectors
CSS Selectors: Element
The element selector selects all elements with the specified element name.

p {
color: yellow;
}

body {
background-color: red;
}
CSS Selectors: Id
The #id selector styles the element with the specified id attribute.

<h1 id="header">This is my page header</h1>

<strong id="firstname">This is my first name</strong>

#header {
color: yellow;
}

#firstname {
background-color: red;
}
CSS Selectors: Class
The .class selector selects all elements with a specific class attribute.

<h1 class="maintitle">Main title goes here.</h1>

<p class="address">1212 some Rd. Tallahassee, FL</p>

.maintitle {
font-size: 100px;
}

.address {
font-style: italic;
}
CSS Selectors: Class
You can also specify that only specific HTML elements should be affected by a class.
To do this, start with the element name, then write the period (.) character, followed
by the name of the class.

<h1 class="maintitle">Main title goes here.</h1>

<p class="maintitle">1212 some Rd. Tallahassee, FL</p>

h1.maintitle {
font-size: 100px;
}
CSS Selectors: *
The * selector selects all elements.

* {
font-size: 10px;
}

The * selector can also select all elements inside another element

p * {
background-color: green;
}
CSS Selectors: Element Element
The element element selector is used to select elements inside elements.

<p>This is my <strong>address</strong> in green background.</p>

p strong {
background-color: green;
}
CSS Selectors: Element,Element
To style several elements with the same style, separate each element name with a
comma.

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<h1>This is a heading.</h1>

p,h1 {
background-color: green;
}

p {
font-size: 10px;
}
CSS Selectors
There are a number of other CSS selectors that can be used. For a complete list you
can check out this webpage:

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp
Cascading
Styles "cascade" down until changed
p{
color:blue;
font-family: 'Helvetica';
}
.red {
color: red;
}
#special {
font-family: Arial;
}

<p>Paragraph</p>
<p class ="red">Paragraph</p>
<p class = "red" id ="special">Paragraph</p>
Cascading Priority
Your browser assigns different priorities to CSS rules depending on the type of
selector.

1. Important! - Most Important


2. Inline CSS
3. ID
4. Class
5. Element - Least Important
Cascading Priority
Your browser also assigns priority based on the specificity of the selection. More
specific selectors have higher priority.

.main .sale .clearance p{ //Most specific


color: red;
}
.header .title p{
color: green;
}
.footer p{ //Least specific
color: blue;
}
Cascading Priority
The tie-breaker is position. Rules lower in the file overwrite rules higher in the file

a{
background-color: red;
}

a{
background-color: yellow;
}

a{ //this rule wins


background-color: black;
}
CSS Values
CSS Values: Color
Your browser can accept colors in many different ways:

● Color name (ex. red)


● Hexadecimal value (ex. #FF0000)
● RGB value (ex. rgb(255, 0, 0))
● HSL value (ex. hsl(0, 100%, 100%))

The 17 standard named colors are: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia,gray, grey, green, lime,
maroon, navy, olive, purple,red, silver, teal, white, and yellow.

With the possible exception of black and white, color names have limited use in a
modern, well-designed web sites because they are so specific and limiting.
CSS Values: Lengths and Percentages
There are many property-specific units for values used in CSS, but there are some
general units that are used by a number of properties and it is worth familiarizing
yourself with these before continuing.

● px (such as font-size: 12px) is the unit for pixels.


● em (such as font-size: 2em) is the unit for the calculated size of a font. So “2em”, for
example, is two times the current font size.
● pt (such as font-size: 12pt) is the unit for points, for measurements typically in printed
media.
● % (such as width: 80%) is the unit for… wait for it… percentages.
● Other units include pc (picas), cm (centimeters), mm (millimeters) and in (inches).
● When a value is zero, you do not need to state a unit. For example, if you wanted to
specify no border, it would be border: 0.
CSS Properties
CSS Properties: Color
To define the text color we use the color property:

p {
color: yellow;
}

To define the background color we use the background-color property:

body {
background-color: red;
}
CSS Properties: Text
You can alter the size and shape of the text on a web page with a range of properties.

font-family: This is the font itself, such as Times New Roman, Arial, or Verdana.

The user’s browser has to be able to find the font you specify, which, in most cases,
means it needs to be on their computer so there is little point in using obscure fonts
that are only sitting on your computer

There are a select few “safe” fonts (the most commonly used are Arial, Verdana and
Times New Roman), but you can specify more than one font, separated by commas.
The purpose of this is that if the user does not have the first font you specify, the
browser will go through the list until it finds one it does have.
CSS Properties: Text
p {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Serif;
}

will look for the Arial font first and, if the browser can’t find it, it will search for
Helvetica, and then a common serif font.

if the name of a font is more than one word, it should be put in quotation marks

p {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
}
CSS Properties: Text
font-size: sets the size of the font (remember units such as px, em, pt)

font-weight: states whether the text is bold or not (bold, light,normal,...)

font-style: states whether the text is italic or not (italic, normal)

text-decoration: states whether the text has got a line running under, over, or
through it. (underline, overline, line-through, none)

text-transform: will change the case of the text (capitalize, uppercase, lowercase,
none)
CSS Properties: Text
body {
font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
}
a {
h1 {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 2em;
}
}
strong {
h2 {
font-style: italic;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
}
CSS Properties: Text Spacing
letter-spacing: sets spacing between letters. The value can be a length or normal.

word-spacing: sets spacing between words. The value can be a length or normal.

line-height: sets the height of the lines in an element, such as a paragraph, without
adjusting the size of the font. It can be a number (which specifies a multiple of the
font size, so “2” will be two times the font size, for example), a length, a percentage,
or normal.

text-indent: will indent the first line of a paragraph, to a given length or percentage.

text-align: will align the text inside an element to left, right, center, or justify
CSS Properties
Many CSS properties have self-explanatory names:

● background-color
● font-family
● font-size
● color
● width
● height

We can't possibly cover all CSS properties in this course, but we'll cover more later.

Comprehensive list of all CSS properties

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