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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.

element, there is a larger uppercase letter wherever an uppercaseletter appears in the source and a small uppercase wherever there isa lowercase letter in the source. This may remind you rather stronglyof text-transform: uppercase, withthe only real difference that here, the uppercase letters are ofdifferent sizes. That's true, but the reason thatsmall-caps is declared using a font property isthat some fonts have a specific small-caps face. Thus, a fontproperty is used to select that face.

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.




specification, when these formatting properties have been over-constrained -- then margin-right is always forced to be auto. This means that if both margins and the width are set to 100px , then the right margin will be set by the user agent to auto: 

P {margin-left: 100px; margin-right: 100px; width: 100px;}

It will then evaluate to 200px , as shown in Figure 8-12.

400. In this case, it will usually be "Normal" or "Medium." This method is also used for 200 and 100.

  • If 600 is unassigned, it is given the next variant darker than 400. If no darker variant is available, 600 is assigned the same variant as 500. This method is also used for 700, 800, and