Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Instructor: Dr. Fang (Daisy) Tang

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Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

1. Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Instructor: Dr. Fang (Daisy) Tang

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2. What is CSS?

• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
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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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3. 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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4. 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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5. CSS Style Rule

property names
declarations
p{
font-size: x-large ;
background-color: yellow
}
selector string
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6. 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:
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#p1, #s1 {background-color: blue}
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id values are case-sensitive
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7. Sector Strings, Continue ??

Sector Strings, Continue …
• Class selector:
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.myitalic {font-style: italic}
.myred {color: red}
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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
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p.right {text-align: right}
p#left {text-align: left}
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8. Selector Strings, Continue ??

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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9. 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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10. CSS Basics

Background
Text
Font
Border
Outline
Margin
Padding
List
Table
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11. CSS Advanced

CSS
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dimension
classification
positioning
pseudo-class
pseudo-element
media types
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12. Font

• Generic font families defined in
HTML and CSS are:
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Serif
Sans-serif
Monospace
Cursive
Fantasy
• There are a lot other font
families, but might not be well
supported
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13. 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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14. 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
• Example:
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http://www.csupomona.edu/~ftang/www/courses/CS299-S09/examples/font.html
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15. More Case Studies of CSS

from CSS Tutorials @
http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/Cascading_Style_Sheets.htm
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16. Case Study

• Understanding CSS “float”
– http://webdesign.about.com/od/advancedcss/a/aa010107.htm
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17. Case Study

• Tableless layouts
– http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa102102a.htm
• There are many potential problems about
using table for layout
– http://webdesign.about.com/od/layout/a/aa111102a.htm
• Frames can also be substituted by CSS
– http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa110402a.htm
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18. Case Study

• Fixed width layouts vs. Liquid layouts
– http://webdesign.about.com/od/layout/i/aa060506.htm
• 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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19. Case Study

• How to build a 3-column layout:
– http://webdesign.about.com/od/csstutorials/ss/css_layout_sbs.htm
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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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20. Free Web Templates

http://webdesign.about.com/od/websitetemplates/a/bl_layouts.htm
• http://www.csszengarden.com
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