CSS

CSS Tutorial - Table of contents

• Introduction
  A brief introduction to the tutorial and what you can expect to learn.
• Lesson 1: What is CSS?
  A little on why CSS came in to the world, and why it is clever to choose CSS over HTML for layout and design.
• Lesson 2: How does CSS work?
  Learn the basic syntax of CSS and have to create your first stylesheet.
• Lesson 3: Colors and backgrounds
  Learn how to apply colors and background colors to your website and how to use background images.
• Lesson 4: Fonts
  In this lesson you will learn about fonts and how they are applied using CSS.
• Lesson 5: Text
  In this lesson you will be introduced to the amazing opportunities CSS gives you to add layout to text.
• Lesson 6: Links
  About how you can add fancy and useful effects to links and work with pseudo-classes.
• Lesson 7: Identification and grouping of elements (class and id)
  A closer look at how you can use class and id to specify properties for selected elements.
• Lesson 8: Grouping of elements (span and div)
  A closer look at the use of span and div as exactly these two HTML elements are of central importance with regards to CSS
• Lesson 9: The box model
  The box model in CSS describes the boxes which are being generated for HTML-elements.
• Lesson 10: The box model - margin & padding
  Change the presentation of elements by setting the margin and padding properties.
• Lesson 11: The box model - borders
  Learn about the endless options when using borders in your pages with CSS
• Lesson 12: The Box model - Height and width
  In this lesson, we will take a look at how you easily can define the height and width of an element.
• Lesson 13: Floating elements (floats)
  An element can be floated to the right or to left by using the property float
• Lesson 14: Positioning of elements
  With CSS positioning, you can place an element exactly where you want it on your page.
• Lesson 15: Layer on layer with z-index (Layers)
  In this lesson, we will learn how to let different elements overlapping one another using layers.
• Lesson 16: Web-standards and validation
  This last lesson is about the W3C-standards and how to check your CSS is correct.