Creating Styles with CSS3 and Styling Text Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
CSS3 has a range of styling options for text and list presentation. In this course, you will learn how to use rule sets to create styles, how to group and apply styles, and how to apply styles for effective content display.
Target Audience
Web developers who want to learn CSS3 syntax, create styles and style sheets, and how to use CSS3 to style text
Prerequisites
none
Expected Duration (hours)
1.4
Lesson Objectives Creating Styles with CSS3 and Styling Text
start the course
introduce CSS3 and demonstrate how styles can be applied to content
describe user agent stylesheets and override them with a CSS Reset
demonstrate how to use a rule set to apply a CSS style
describe how CSS styles are inherited and cascaded
describe how to implement inline CSS styles and discuss their drawbacks
implement internal CSS styles
reference external CSS style sheets
describe basic CSS selectors including the universal, type and id, and class selectors
group CSS selectors using child and sibling combinators
use CSS attribute selectors to apply styles based one or more of an element's attributes
describe CSS pseudo-classes, reasons for their use, benefits and drawbacks, and use pseudo-classes to apply styles
describe CSS pseudo-elements, reasons for their use, benefits and drawbacks, and use pseudo-elements to apply styles
modify the specificity of a CSS selector
use the CSS3 font face rule to apply a web font face
use CSS properties to style text
use CSS properties such as direction, text-align, text-indent, text-spacing, and word-spacing to position text
use CSS text decoration (including level 3 shorthand)
use CSS pseudo selectors to style the first letter or line of a paragraph
use CSS to style lists
use CSS to create custom bulleted lists
practice styling text with CSS3
Course Number: wd_cssh_a01_it_enus
Expertise Level
Beginner