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

02. Style Guide

The Style Element

The Style Attribute

The Style Document

03. CSS Documents

Directory Placement

The <link> Element

04. CSS Applied

Comments in CSS

Understanding Styling

05. Selector Types

Universal Selectors

Element Selectors

Class Selectors

06. Chaining Selectors

Direct Chaining

Descendent Selector

Adjacent Sibling Selector

General Sibling Selector

07. Cascading

Cascading in CSS Rules

Setting Importance

08. Inheritance

09. Exploring Color

Specifying Color

Saturated Color

Desaturated Color (Grayscale)

Combining Colors

10. Using Color

Background Color

Basic Positioning

Class Selectors

Class names assigned to HTML elements via the class="" attribute can also be used to style elements. To select class elements, prepend a dot (.) to the front of the class name in the CSS.

Using class selectors is a great way to select elements that serve the same function.