Web Foundations/CSS Formatting
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This lesson introduces CSS formatting.
Objectives and Skills
[edit | edit source]Objectives and skills for this lesson include:[1][2]
- Identify and use design and color principles for Web pages.
- Define and apply essential aspects of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard, including CSS versions 1, 2 and 3.
- Design Web pages to industry standards.
- Identify essential Web site navigation issues, and ensure page/site accessibility.
Readings
[edit | edit source]- Wikipedia: Cascading Style Sheets
- Wikipedia: Style sheet (web development)
- Wikipedia: Font family (HTML)
- Wikipedia: Web colors
- Wikibooks: HyperText Markup Language/CSS
Multimedia
[edit | edit source]Examples
[edit | edit source]Inline
[edit | edit source]<h1 style="color: blue;">Heading</h1>
Internal
[edit | edit source]<head>
<style>
h1 {color: blue;}
</style>
</head>
External
[edit | edit source]<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
Color
[edit | edit source]<h1 style="color: #0000ff;">Heading</h1>
Background Color
[edit | edit source]<h1 style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #ffffff;">Heading</h1>
Font Family
[edit | edit source]<h1 style="font-family: 'Lucida Console', monospace;">Heading</h1>
Font Size
[edit | edit source]<h1 style="font-size: 120%;">Heading</h1>
Font Style
[edit | edit source]<h1 style="font-style: italic;">Heading</h1>
Activities
[edit | edit source]Key Terms
[edit | edit source]- dithering
- hexadecimal
- rule
- sans-serif
- selector
- serif
See Also
[edit | edit source]References
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