Web and Intranet - Cascading style sheets

Web and Intranet module W704

Cascading style sheets - putting it all together

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module W704. This module is presented on Private Courses and Specially Run Courses only

Background

In this module, we bring together all the elements of cascading style sheets to a practical and efficient use of the principle, and compare their use to other techniques such as tables.

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
4037	Cascading Style Sheets and formatting your web page Cascading Style Sheets and formatting your web page The most basic way of setting attributes like boldness, colour of font, centering, etc, is to use tags diret within the HTML. It's quite striaghtforward to do - simply surround the text you want to be bold with <b> to </b> for bold, with something ...	2013-04-13
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
2223	CSS Style Diagrams - working out where attributes come from I have just been helping a customer who's got a problem with white text on a white background ... and hasn't been able to easily identify where the problem lies. Some of his code looks like this: <div id="Layer6"> <div align="center" class="style11 style13"> <div align="left" class="style17"> ...	2009-06-09
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
996	Setting your colour theme through PHP Although we usually think of PHP as a server side language concerned with databases and the driving of applications, it's also of great use in controlling the use's look and feel ... indeed, I've just written a number of examples of how PHP can be used to select a set of colours (themes) for the user. ...	2006-12-21
501	.css - using PHP to make dynamic style sheets Did you know that you can use PHP to generate dynamic style sheets? If you look at the accessibility options on our new-look website, you'll find you can change the colour and font size on all the pages, and you can select wide and narrow too. And if you're using an older browser that doesn't fully ...	2006-06-09
565	Using PHP to output images, XML, Style sheets, etc PHP is usually used to generate a stream of HTML to be sent to the browser, but if you use the header function within your page you can use it to send any other type you wish. For example, if I include header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); then I can script the production of images. Easy? Yes, but ...	2006-06-09

Examples from our training material

direct.html	Direct coding
hex1.html	Direct Coding
hex2.html	with tags embedded in page
hex3.css	Style sheet for example no. 3
hex3.html	Page layout included within style
hex4.css	Style for example 4
hex4.html	page layout is within style sheet
hex_direct.html	Direct code - older style tags
holder.html	holding page
styled.html	Styles within page

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from [here].

Topics covered in this module

Putting it all together.
Tables v Cascading Style Sheets.

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