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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

Text Color

In addition to background color, CSS also provides developers the ability to specify the color of text. The property name for this is simply color: .

The color property is an “inherited” property. This means a developer can define a color property value in a top level element, and it will be “inherited” by all children elements.