WW510 - Introduction to CSS
Course Description
Learn to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to effectively and efficiently format and position web page elements. Create CSS to add presentation-type effects, visual qualities, and layout options to your web pages. Learn to create drop caps, insert page breaks for printing, place images and other web elements on your page, incorporate links that change color as the mouse passes over them, and access additional text and font properties. Understand how to create style sheets that are embedded in a particular page and external style sheets that can be used by multiple pages. Topics include the STYLE, LINK, and @import tags and the style attribute of standard HTML tags. Additional topics include font, text, color, background, and positioning properties unavailable with standard HTML attributes and tags. Inline styles, style classes and rules of precedence for overlapping styles will also be covered.
In this course, you will learn to:
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Specifies the exact size of text.
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Sets margins within a Web page.
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Precisely lays out text, images, and other objects using absolute screen references.
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Uses units of measurement such as inches and centimeters to set precise sizes for text or images.
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Sets precisely where a background image is to be displayed, if it is to be repeated, and if it scrolls with the page.
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Adds borders around text.?
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Adjusts spacing between letters, words, and lines of text.
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Creates a distinctive “style” for individual or multiple pages.
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Places background color in the background of not only the entire page, but also behind headings or paragraphs.
Prerequisites
Introduction to HTML or equivalent experience.Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Web Design Certificate : Web Page Design