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CSS Training: Developing Cascading Style Sheets

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Course Number: 805
Duration: 2 days
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CSS Training Overview

Accelebrate's Developing Cascading Style Sheets course teaches attendees how to format text and layout pages using CSS.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. To receive a customized proposal and price quote, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals.  To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/xml_html_js.htm.

CSS Training Prerequisites

Prior hands-on experience with HTML is required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 10 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

CSS Training Materials

All students receive a copy of Peachpit Press's CSS Web Site Design Hands-on Training, related courseware, and a CD-R copy of the files they create during the class.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

  • Windows or MacOS X with at least 512MB RAM
  • Firefox 2 or later with the Firebug (http://getfirebug.com) extension installed
  • Internet Explorer 6 or later [Windows users]
  • Safari 2 or later [Mac users]

CSS Training Objectives

All attendees will learn how to:

  • Create inline, embedded, and linked CSS rules
  • Effectively use CSS selectors and exploit the cascade
  • Control page layout via CSS (using CSS instead of tables)
  • Style text and control margins and borders
  • Design a print style sheet that can be applied when a document is printed

CSS Training Outline

  • Understanding CSS
    • Reviewing XTHML Basics
    • Understanding CSS Terminology
    • Adding Rules to a Style Sheet
    • Adding Selectors
    • Working with Multiple Declarations
    • Working with Style Sheets
    • Embedding a Style Sheet
    • Importing an External Style Sheet
    • Importing Multiple Style Sheets
    • Linking to an External Style Sheet
    • Managing Style Sheets
  • Selectors and the Cascade
    • Understanding Selectors
    • Using ID Selectors
    • Using Class Selectors
    • Using Grouped Selectors
    • Using Descendant Selectors
    • Looking for the Sources of Styles
    • Resolving Style Conflicts with Specificity
    • Using the !important Declaration
    • Understanding Inheritance
    • Revealing Unstyled Documents
    • Applying User Style Sheets
  • Using CSS to Affect Page Layout
    • Introducing the CSS Box Model
    • Creating Simple Floats
    • Using Floats for Page Layout
    • Fixing Column Drop
    • Clearing Essentials
    • Containing Floats
    • Displaying Elements
  • Setting Foreground and Background Properties
    • Adding Foreground Colors
    • Adding Color to Background Elements
    • Adding Background Images
    • Repeating Background Images
    • Positioning Background Images
    • Using the Background Shorthand Declaration
  • Setting Typography
    • Altering Line Height
    • Using Font Families
    • Changing Font Styles and Weights
    • Sizing Fonts
    • Writing Font Shorthand Declarations
    • Aligning Text Horizontally
    • Aligning Text Vertically
    • Transforming Text
    • Decorating Text
  • Using Margins and Borders to Create Whitespace and Separation
    • Understanding Margins
    • Adding Borders
    • Implementing Padding
    • Using Negative Margins
    • Collapsing Margins
  • Styling Tables
    • Styling Tables and Captions
    • Styling Table Cells
    • Styling Column Classes
    • Styling Links in Table Cells
  • Styling for Print
    • Styling for Specific Mediums
    • Creating a Print Style Sheet
    • Hiding Elements for Print
    • Styling for Print
    • Applying Complex Styling for Print
    • Creating a Footer
  • Bringing It All Together
    • Working with Text Fragments
    • Setting Global Styles
    • Defining Masthead and Navbar Colors
    • Laying Out the Navbar
    • Using Columns
    • Setting Content Styles
    • Starting the Sidebar
    • Creating the Sidebar Boxes
    • Completing the Sidebar
    • Styling the Table
    • Creating the Footer
  • Conclusion
 

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