The Complete Beginner’s Guide to CSS

Discover core CSS fundamentals, adding colors, controlling layouts, and exploring essential CSS animation functions to create professional web pages.

Beginner

54 Lessons

4h 55min

Certificate of Completion

Discover core CSS fundamentals, adding colors, controlling layouts, and exploring essential CSS animation functions to create professional web pages.

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This course includes

104 Playgrounds

8 Quizzes

This course includes

104 Playgrounds

8 Quizzes

Course Overview

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a document type and the associated scripting language that describes the presentation of HTML documents. Using the CSS language, you can control the look and feel of web pages by defining layout, text, and image properties to be applied in a wide array of contexts. This course is a comprehensive introduction to both writing and implementing CSS. Using the document hierarchy model, you’ll learn how to tailor web styles to specific areas. With your hierarchy defined, you’ll di...Show More

What You'll Learn

Working knowledge of modern web design best practices using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for HTML documents

A strong understanding of CSS scripting and its document hierarchy model

Deep familiarity with stylizing text, images, backgrounds, and layouts using CSS

The ability to animate key web page elements using advanced CSS functions

Hands-on experience building a professional web page using CSS

What You'll Learn

Working knowledge of modern web design best practices using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for HTML documents

Course Content

Introduction to CSS

Get familiar with CSS basics and ways to integrate it into web projects.

Course Introduction

Adding CSS to Your Projects

CSS Selectors

Grasp the fundamentals of CSS selectors to target elements efficiently and enhance web styling.

Selecting Elements Using the Document Hierarchy Using Attribute Selectors Part 1: Pseudo-Classes Part 2: Pseudo-Classes Pseudo-Elements Quiz Yourself: CSS Selectors

CSS Core Concepts

Break apart the cascade, inheritance, and specificity, ensuring effective CSS management and clean code.

The Cascade and Inheritance Specificity

CSS Units

Find out about CSS units for responsive and adaptable web design.

Introduction to Units Pixels and Percentages Font-Relative Units Viewport Units Quiz Yourself: CSS Units

CSS Fundamentals

Deepen your knowledge of CSS box model, margins, padding, borders, fonts, lists, and calculations.

The Box Model Margins Padding Borders Commenting Fonts Styling Lists Calculations in CSS Quiz Yourself: CSS Fundamentals

Backgrounds & Colors

7 Lessons

Investigate CSS backgrounds, color customization, and accessibility considerations in web design.

CSS Layout

11 Lessons

Build on understanding CSS layout techniques, including display properties, positioning, flexbox, grid, and media queries.

Animating Your CSS

5 Lessons

Try out CSS filters, transforms, transitions, and animations for dynamic web effects.

CSS Architecture

5 Lessons

Unpack the core of feature queries, CSS variables, resets, normalization, and vendor prefixes.

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Conclusion

1 Lesson

Explore your newfound CSS skills for continued learning and questions. Best wishes!

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