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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.


<TD CLASS="write"><A HREF="write.html">Contact Me</A></TD></TR></TABLE>

Then, on each page, we simply write an appropriate style. If thehighlighted link should have a yellow background, then on the"Other Links" page, we would add this to the style sheet,leading to the result depicted in Figure 11-20:

TD.links {background: yellow;}
Figure 11-20

Figure 11-20. Highlighting the current page



<TD><A HREF="links.html">Other Links</A></TD><TD><A HREF="write.html">Contact Me</A></TD></TR></TABLE>

However, on each page, we want the cell containing the current pageto be highlighted in some fashion. This is really easy. All we haveto do is add a class to each table cell, like this:

<TABLE border cellpadding="4"><TR>
<P STYLE="font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">This is text, <EM>some of which is emphasized</EM>, plus other text<BR>which is <B STYLE="font-size: 24px;">boldfaced</B> and which is<BR>larger than the surrounding text.</P>
What we have here is a situation where some of the text has afont-size of 12px , while othertext has a size of 24px . However, all of the texthas a line-height of 12px,since line-height is an inherited property. What