Web and Intranet - Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

Web and Intranet module W701

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module W701. This topic is presented on public course %xw%

Background

Cascading Style Sheets add control and styling to basic HTML structure. CSS consists of lists of layout and display rules which govern how a web page will look. It can control margins, font styles, backgrounds, images and positioning, just to name a few.

Related technical and longer articles

Introduction to Cascaded Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets - laying out your page
Cascading Style Sheets - putting it all together
Elements of Cascading Style Sheets

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
994	Training on Cascading Style Sheets There are certain technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that I describe as associated technologies - not our bread and butter training business, but never the less subjects that we need to know, quite well and with practical experience too, as part of our work. These technologies get peripheral ...	2010-12-29
1677	CSS training - Cascading Style Sheets (UK course) It's Sunday ... and I've been teaching Cascading Style Sheets (or rather "I've been teaching a customer about cascading style sheets") ... one of our delegates for this week's PHP course asked me to spend a few hours going through CSS with him ahead of time. Here's an example ... using the "KISS" approach ...	2008-06-15
1016	Modernising from tables to cascading style sheets I've been updating some web pages these last few days. Our web site traces its origins back to 1997 (when we registered wellho.com) and although it's all changed many times since then, there are underlying elements which have been getting a bit long in the tooth. Whole loads of tables that we have ...	2007-01-02
999	Cascading and the buses 1. Public transport services are operated around these parts by the First Group. 2. The 272 bus is operated by Faresaver. 3. Town buses in Melksham are run by Frome Minibuses. 4. If you see a white bus around, it will be the Seend Shuttle We cascade information in real life. My initial statement ...	2006-12-21
993	Positioning with Cascading Style Sheets I've been busy updating some cascading style sheet demonstrations and adding to material today, including some positioning demonstrations which, I must confess, have been a bit frustrating at time. There's just so much I want to show without producing a great fat book with lots of long examples ... ...	2006-12-18

Examples from our training material

casc1.html	Cascading style sheets - a simple cascade example
csel.html	Using an external style sheet file
cshello.html	First example of the application of style
styles01.css	Style sheet - external files, first example

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

What and Why?
Structure.
External, embedded and inline styles.
Loading Style sheets.
What is cascading and how does it work?

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