CSS works hand in hand with HTML to help craft a beautiful browsing experience. Andrew’s Beginners CSS course introduces the key concepts of CSS, from styling text to laying out web pages. Some prior knowledge of HTML helps a lot…

On the Beginners CSS course you’ll learn about:

What is CSS?

• About HTML and Structural Markup
• About XML
• About the W3C
• About Browsers and CSS

Creating CSS

• CSS Files
• Inline CSS
• Style element CSS

Attaching CSS

• Linking to CSS files
• Importing CSS files
• Inheritance in CSS
• Linking to more than one file

Basic CSS Selectors

• Working with Type selectors
• Classes and IDs
• Descendent selectors
• Grouped selectors
• Selectors for links

CSS Type Properties

• About fonts
• Styling text

CSS Background Properties

• Background colours
• Background images

CSS Box Model

• The display property
• Block level elements
• Working with dimensions in CSS
• About padding, margins and borders
• About the float property
• Dealing with overflow

Creating float layouts

• Dividing up a page
• Creating columns
• Working with floated elements
• Creating horizontal navigation
• About Container/Wrapper divs

Working with different browsers

• Things to watch out for
• Testing strategies
• Hacks for MS Internet Explorer