CSS Fundamentals

Topic Overview

The Anatomy of Style

Select and Declare Elements and Rules Property and Value The Anatomy of Style TODO

Style Guide

Where to Style The Style Attribute The Style Element The Style Document TODO

CSS Documents

Directory Placement The <link> Tag Relationship Type Href The <link> Element TODO

CSS Applied

Comments in CSS Understanding Styling Applying Style TODO

Selector Types

Universal Selectors Element Selectors Class Selectors ID Selectors TODO

Cascading

Cascading in CSS Rules Order Specificity Setting Importance TODO

Exploring Color

Specifying Color Color Names RGB Values Hex Codes Saturated Color Desaturated Color (Grayscale) Combining Colors TODO

Using Color

Background Color Text Color Opacity Basic Positioning Color Palettes TODO

The Anatomy of Style

Elements have many properties that can be affected. This course covers several of them, but not all. Luckily, many of the properties are intuitively labeled.

In the example below, our selector is the <body> element. The declaration is made up of the property background-color and we changed its value to orange.

Altogether

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