Intro to Web Design & Development
  • Course Info
  • Modules
    • Introduction
    • Project 1

    • Topic 1
    • Topic 2
    • Topic 3
    • Project 2

    • Topic 4
    • Topic 5
    • Topic 6
    • Topic 7
    • Project 3

    • Topic 8
    • Topic 9
    • Topic 10
    • Finals
  • FAQs & Walkthroughs

Current Assignment(s)

A6: Color
Due: Recommended by Monday, 6.04

"Intro to CSS"

    Topic 08 Overview

01. The Anatomy of Style

    Select and Declare Elements and Rules Property and Value The Anatomy of Style TODO

02. Style Guide

    Where to Style The Style Element The Style Attribute The Style Document TODO

03. CSS Documents

    Directory Placement The <link> Tag Relationship Type Href The <link> Element TODO

04. CSS Applied

    Comments in CSS Understanding Styling Applying Style TODO

05. Selector Types

    Universal Selectors Element Selectors Class Selectors ID Selectors TODO

06. Chaining Selectors

    Direct Chaining Child Selector Descendent Selector Adjacent Sibling Selector General Sibling Selector TODO

07. Cascading

    Cascading in CSS Rules Order Specificity Setting Importance TODO

08. Inheritance

    Who Inherits What They Get TODO

09. Exploring Color

    Specifying Color Color Names RGB Values Hex Codes Saturated Color Desaturated Color (Grayscale) Combining Colors Color in Atom TODO

10. Using Color

    Background Color Text Color Opacity Basic Positioning Learn More TODO

Cascading in CSS Rules

In CSS, it is possible and common to have two or more selectors that cause declarations to apply to the same element. CSS implements specific rules and algorithms to determine which rules ultimately apply to the specific element.

how css and html files link together to reach the user

This is known as cascading, and is fundamental to the idea of CSS (hence why it is part of the name for the language).


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