Try It: CSS Fundamentals
edX
Ever wondered how web pages have different font styles? Or why some have different colors in their backgrounds? Find out by taking our free, self-paced course — and learn about the most fundamental tool that web developers use to style web pages: CSS, also known as Cascading Style Sheets.
About this Course
This Try It: CSS Fundamentals course will show you how to achieve beautiful web design and teach you to combine HTML and CSS to create something gorgeous via lines of code. Now, CSS on its own doesn’t do anything — when you add a CSS page to HTML coding and other technologies, however, that’s when the CSS styling comes into play. Through combining CSS and HTML, suddenly a web page becomes visually interesting, interactive, and engaging. For example, the navigation on a website is now made up of buttons that are different colors, navigation can be sticky, words appear in different sizes and colors, content has spacing, animations can be added, decorative features appear, and so much more. In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of CSS, and: How to style basic HTML elements How to style existing web pages You’ll also learn some of the terms that every developer needs to know. By the end of the course, you’ll understand what every line of CSS code is trying to accomplish. After completing this course, you will be able to: Style HTML elements using CSS selectors Link CSS stylesheets to HTML files 3b:Tc8c,{"@c
What You'll Learn
- The basics of CSS
- How to style a web page
- How to combine HTML and CSS
- How to style HTML elements using CSS selectors
Instructors
edX Learning
The Learning Teams