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CSS stands for
Cascading
Style
Sheets
selectors
are used to "find" (or select) the HTML elements you want to style.
id
selector
uses the id attribute of an HTML element to select a specific element.
universal
selector
(*) selects all HTML elements on the page.
grouping
selector
selects all the HTML elements with the same style definitions.
External styles
are defined within the <link> element, inside the <head> section of an HTML page:
An
internal
style
sheet may be used if one single HTML page has a unique style.
An
inline
style
may be used to apply a unique style for a single element.
Comments
are used to explain the code, and may help when you edit the source code at a later date.
A CSS comment is placed inside the <style> element, and starts with
/
*
and ends with
*
/
From the HTML tutorial, you learned that you can add comments to your HTML source by using the
<
!
--...-->syntax.
An RGB color value represents
RED
,
GREEN
, and
BLUE
light sources.
Shades
of
gray
are often defined using equal values for all the 3 light sources:
In CSS, a color can be specified using a hexadecimal value in the form:
#rrggbb
In CSS, a color can be specified using
hue
,
saturation
, and
lightness
(HSL) in the form:
hsl(hue, saturation, lightness)
Hue
is a degree on the color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation
is a percentage value. 0% means a shade of gray, and 100% is the full color.
Lightness
is also a percentage. 0% is black, 50% is neither light or dark, 100% is white
The
alpha parameter
is a number between 0.0 (fully transparent) and 1.0 (not transparent at all)
The
background-color
property specifies the background color of an element.
The
opacity
property specifies the opacity/transparency of an element. It can take a value from 0.0 - 1.0. The lower value, the more transparent
The
background-image
property specifies an image to use as the background of an element.
If the image above is repeated only horizontally (
background-repeat:
repeat-x
;)
To repeat an image vertically, set
background-repeat
:
repeat-y;
The
background-position
property is used to specify the position of the background image
The
background-attachment
property specifies whether the background image should scroll or be fixed
The
background
Sets all the background properties in one declaration
Background-origin
Specifies where the background image(s) is/are positioned
Background-clip
Specifies the painting area of the background
CSS border properties
allow you to specify the style, width, and color of an element's border.
border-style
property specifies what kind of border to display.
The
border-width
property specifies the width of the four borders.
The
border-color
property is used to set the color of the four borders.
The
border-radius
property is used to add rounded borders to an element:
The CSS
margin
properties are used to create space around elements, outside of any defined borders.
Padding
is used to create space around an element's content, inside of any defined borders.
The CSS
height
and
width
properties are used to set the height and width of an
element.
The CSS
max-width
property is used to set the maximum width of an element.
inherit
- The height/width will be inherited from its parent value
initial
- Sets the height/width to its default value
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