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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Overview

CSS allows developers to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once. Define a style for each HTML element and apply it to multiple Web pages. All elements are updated automatically.

Prerequisites

An understanding of HTML

Course Content

CSS Introduction

What are style sheets?
What is CSS?
Where does CSS come from?
What does CSS do?
The legacy of HTML
CSS Productivity advantages
CSS Site management advantages
CSS Accessibility advantages
CSS problems and shortcomings

Syntax Basics

How style sheets work
Anatomy of style sheets - statements, selectors, properties and values

Basic Selectors and Properties

HTML element selectors
Basic text properties
Inheritance
Whitespace in CSS code

Linking and Embedding

Linking documents to style sheets
Embedding documents in style sheets
Which is better, linking or embedding?

More Text Properties

More CSS text and font properties - text-decoration, font-style, font-weight
Background properties
Color values in CSS
Group selectors
Case sensitivity in CSS

Background Properties

Background properties
Color in CSS
The color property
Group selectors

Class & Pseudo Class Selectors

Background properties
Color in CSS
The color property
Group selectors

Page Layout

The use of whitespace
margins
padding
text alignment and centering objects
borders

Links with Class

Combining link and class selectors

A Navigation Bar

Cascading
Descendant selectors

Importing Style Sheets

importing style sheets
using importing to manage large web sites

Real World CSS

Validating HTML and CSS
Design for adaptability and accessibility
Real world issues for commonly used properties
Browser compatibility. Making style sheets work today

Other Relevant Courses

Duration

2 Days

Schedule

29/30 September 2008
30/31 October 2008
17/18 November 2008
11/12 December 2009

Prices

£545

All the bookings come with lunch, refreshments, course notes and post training support.

Costs

Studio Vouchers: £420 or less
Season Tickets: £348

Dates

This course runs monthly or twice-monthly at Harlequin Training and can also be run privately at your site.