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CSS Tutorials

CSS Tutorials

Welcome to the CSS Tutorials. In this section we cover Cascading Style Sheets, the powerful supplement to HTML that allows you complete control over the look of your websites. We'll show you how to create Cascading Style Sheets, and some of the cool tricks you can achieve with them.

For Beginners...

Introduction to CSS
This tutorial covers the basics: what are style sheets? How do I make a style sheet? It also shows some of the cool things you can do with style sheets.

CSS Units
A description of all the units that can be used with CSS, including lengths, percentages, colours and URL's.

For Intermediate Users...

Controlling Background Images and Colours
Learn how to use CSS properties to add background images and colour to your Web pages. Lots of neat tricks and examples are included!

Controlling Fonts with CSS
In this tutorial we take a look at how to control the fonts used in your page body text, using the various font properties that can be controlled with style sheets.

Controlling Text Appearance with CSS
This tutorial shows you how to control the layout of your text using the text properties available in CSS, such as line spacing and text alignment.

Making Lists Look Nicer with CSS
You can really go to town with HTML lists when you add a sprinkle of CSS! This tutorial shows you how to make your lists stand out from the crowd.

For Advanced Users...

CSS Positioning
This tutorial teaches you how to use CSS to position images, text, and other elements on your Web pages. Essential reading for anyone who wants to start using CSS for layout.

background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top right;}

Incidentally, the result, shown in Figure 6-37, would have been exactly the same had the position been declared as right top. When using the position keywords, they can appear in any order, so long as there are no more than two of them, one for the horizontal and the other for the vertical.

Figure 6-37

Figure 6-37. Placing the background image in the top right corner of the browser window




Figure 10-11

Figure 10-11. Selecting styles for certain first children

The very first paragraph is italicized because it is the first child of the BODY element. Similarly, the first paragraph in the first DIV is italicized because it is the first child of the DIV, even though text preceded it. Only structural elements count for this pseudo-class, so the text before the paragraph doesn't affect the paragraph's status as the first child. However, in the second DIV, the H2 is the first child,element may be floated. Note that, for elements such as paragraph,floating the element will cause its width to tend toward zero unlessan explicit width is assigned; thus, width assignment is a crucialpart of floating any nonreplaced element.

Example

IMG {float: left;}

Values

left | right |none