CSS: learning about style sheets

Objectives

To be able to build a basic CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) stylesheet for a website and attach it to a document or a series of documents, and to master the use of positioning rules to develop web pages with a predictable layout.

Targeted audience

To provide the knowledge and skills required to build Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and attach them to a document or a series of documents, and to master the rules for positioning in order to develop sophisticated Web pages with predictable results.

Content

• The usefulness of style sheets
• The CSS model
• Units of measurement
• The box model
• Methods for specifying style rules
• Typographical rules: margins, padding, indentation, fonts, text decorations and style
• Classes and pseudo-classes
• Hierarchical rules
• Developing a simple style sheet for controlling format
• Rules for various media, including print
• Creating a style sheet for printing
• Resolving conflicts between different style rules
• The div and span tags, and the id attribute, and their use in developing style rules
• Using selectors in CSS style sheets, and the rules for how they apply
• Creating hierarchical menus with nested lists
• Absolute positioning without tables
• Positioning rules: the differences between relative, absolute, fixed and static
• Creating a more complex style sheet for controlling the position of elements