CSS in Practice

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
What is CSS?
• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets

– Styles define how to display HTML elements
– Styles are normally stored in Style Sheets
– Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem
– External style sheets can save a lot of work
– External style sheets are stored in CSS files
– Multiple style definitions will cascade into one
• Example: my homepage
• Another example:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/demo_default.htm (.html)
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Multiple Ways to Define Style
• External Style Sheet (.css files)

• Internal Style Sheet
• Inline Styles
• Examples: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_styles.asp
• More: default style, CSS changed by

JavaScript
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Multiple Styles Cascade Into One
• What style will be used when there is more

than one style?
– Browser default
– External style sheets are included
– Embedded styles (inside the <head> tag) override
external styles
– Inline styles (inside an HTML element) override both
embedded and external styles
– Styles modified with JavaScript override all other
styles
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CSS Style Rule
property names
declarations
p{
font-size: x-large ;
background-color: yellow
}
selector string declaration block
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Selector Strings
• Type selector:
– Element type, such as body, p, hr, etc.
• See previous example
– Multiple element types using the same style are
separated by comma
• h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {background-color:purple}
• ID selector:
– #p1, #s1 {background-color: blue}
– … 
– …
– id values are case-sensitive
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Sector Strings, Continue …
• Class selector:
– .myitalic {font-style: italic}
– .myred {color: red}
– … 
– class values are case sensitive
– multiple classes can be applied, separated by space
– All but a few elements, such as html, head, and elements
that appear as content of head, have the class attribute
• ID and class selectors can be prefixed by an element

type name
– p.right {text-align: right}
– p#left {text-align: left}
– … 
– … 
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Selector Strings, Continue …
• A selector within the content of certain element types

– ul span {color: green}: applies to a span element within a
ul element
– ul ol li {letter-spacing: 1em}: applies to an li element
within an ol element that is within a ul element
• CSS comments
/* This is a comment */
p{
text-align: center;
/* This is another comment */
color: black; font-family: arial
}
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How to Insert a Style Sheet?
• External style sheet

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css" />
</head>
• Internal style sheet
<head>
<style type="text/css">
hr {color: sienna}
p {margin-left: 20px}
</style>
</head>
• Inline style
 This is a paragraph 
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CSS Basics
• Background
• Text
• Font
• Border
• Outline
• Margin
• Padding
• List
• Table
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CSS Advanced
• CSS dimension
• CSS classification
• CSS positioning
• CSS pseudo-class
• CSS pseudo-element
• CSS media types
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Font
• Generic font families defined in

HTML and CSS are:
– Serif
– Sans-serif
– Monospace
– Cursive
– Fantasy
• There are a lot other font
families, but might not be well
supported
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How to Select a Font Family?
• Rules-of-Thumb
– Don’t use more than 3-4 fonts on any one page
– Don’t change the font in mid sentence unless you
have a very good reason
– Sans-serif for online, serif for print
– Monospace for typewriter and code
– Script and fantasy for accents
• Sans-serif fonts are the basis of your site, for
example:
– Arial, geneva, helvetica, lucida sans, trebuchet,
verdana
– Verdana is a font family that was actually invented
for use on the web
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Selecting Font, Continue
• Use serif fonts for print

– If you have print friendly versions of your site, use
serif fonts
– Examples: garamond, georgia, new york, times,
times new roman
• Monospace for bode examples
– Use it to provide instructions, give examples, or
imply typewritten text
– Examples: courier, courier new, lucida console,
monaco
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Case Study
• Fixed width layouts vs. Liquid layouts

– https://medium.com/@space.alpaca/so-what-exactly-is-
the-difference-between-fixed-fluid-adaptive-and-
responsive-layouts-and-why-3773272d8481
• Fixed width layouts:
– The width of the entire page is set with a specific
numerical value
• Liquid layouts:
– The width of the entire page is flexible depending
upon how wide the viewer’s browser is
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Case Study
• How to build a 3-column layout:

– https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_two_columns.asp
• Steps:
– Draw your layout
– Create and style a Container element
– Use a Headline Tag for the Header
– To get 3 columns, start by building 2 columns
– Then add 2 columns inside the wide second column
– Add in the Footer
– Add in your personal style and content
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Free Web Templates
• https://www.freewebtemplates.com/
• https://www.os-templates.com/free-website-templates
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Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets

• External Style Sheet (.css files)

• More: default style, CSS changed by

• What style will be used when there is more

selector string declaration block

• ID and class selectors can be prefixed by an element

• A selector within the content of certain element types

• External style sheet

• Generic font families defined in

• Use serif fonts for print

• Fixed width layouts vs. Liquid layouts

• How to build a 3-column layout:

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