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Web Workshop: CSSWeb Workshop: CSS
Objectives:
- “What is CSS?”
- Structure of CSS
- How to use CSS in your webpage

What is CSS? (1)What is CSS?
CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets”
Cascading: refers to the procedure that
determines which style will apply to a
certain section, if you have more than one
style rule.

Style: how you want a certain part of your
page to look. You can set things like color,
margins, font, etc for things like tables,
paragraphs, and headings.

Sheets: the “sheets” are like templates, or a
set of rules, for determining how the
webpage will look.

So, CSS (all together) is a styling language –
a set of rules to tell browsers how your
webpage should look.

What is “Style”?What is “Style”
“Style” is a command that you set to tell the
browser how a certain section of your
webpage should look.
You can use style on many HTML “elements”
(like <p> <h1> <table> etc)

How to write style rules (1)How to write style rules
Two parts: (1) selector and (2) declaration.
Selector: the HTML element you want to
add style to.
<p> <h1> <table> etc
Declaration: the statement of style for that
element. Made up of property and value.

Selector {declaration;}
Declaration = {property: value;}
Property: what aspect you want to change
ex: color, font, margins, etc.
Value: the exact setting for that aspect.
ex: red, italic, 40px, etc.

selector {property: value;}
Essentially means:
The thing I want to change
{the aspect of that thing I want to change:
what I want it to be;}

Selector {property: value;}
h1 {color: red;}
Means: Speaking of my heading1, I want the
text color to be red.

I want the color of the text in my paragraph to be
yellow.
p {color: yellow;}
This is the text in this paragraph.

h1 {color: blue;
background-color: green;}
Means:
Speaking of my heading1, I want the text
color to be blue and the background color to
be green.

I want the text color of my link to be red and the
background color to be yellow.
a {color: red;
background-color: yellow;}
This is my link

Three types of styleWhere do I put my style rules?
There are three types of style-rule-places that
we will cover:
- Inlined
- Internal Style Sheet
- External Style Sheet

<html>
<head><title>My Wonderful Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>What was I thinking?</p>
</body>
</html>
a) Inlined example-1
Original html
code

a) Inlined example-2
<body>
<p style=“text-align: center; font-
weight: bold; color: yellow;”>What was I
thinking?</p>
</body>
What was I thinking?

b) Internal-2
body
{
text-align: left;
font-family: Trebuchet,
verdana;
}
</style>
</head>

Internal: Statement of style
…
</style>
this is a style
sheet (style type)
written (text) in
css (CSS)
language

Internal: Brackets & Declaration
body
{
text-align: left;
font-family: trebuchet, verdana;
}
</style>
I want the “align
text” property to be
given the value of
“left”

c) External
<html>
<head><title>My Way</title>
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~myway.
css" type="text/css“>
</head>
<body> </body>
</html> Link to a
separate css page

The end of Basic CSS
On to the exercises!

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