css-demo

CSS Demo

CSS Properties

Now that we've gone over adding HTML tags to the page, lets cover adding styles to those tags. We can do quite a lot with styles! We can change:

• Typography
• Colors
• Appearance (Corners, Borders, Decorations)
• Layout
• Position
• Inline vs Block
• Animations
• and many more

CSS is always applied in property: value pairs, like background: blue; and are terminated with a semi colon.

Applying CSS to an HTML file

CSS can be applied to HTML tags in three different ways.

1. Inline - Styles are applied directly to the HTML tag
   • <div style="background: blue; color: white;">Hello </div>
2. Via a <style> tag in the HTML page
3. Through an externally loaded CSS file
   • <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css-demo-finished.css" />

Targeting specific HTML tags

Inline styles are always applied directly to the element you place them on, style tags and external CSS files need a method for matching HTML elements with their prospective style sets. We call these "CSS selectors", and they are just as important to learn as the properties/values themselves. When selectors are combined with CSS styles, we call this a ruleset.

CSS rulesets take on the following form:

selector1,
selector2 {
  property1: value1;
  property2: value2;
}

Here's a more detailed view from Chris Eppstein

Selectors can be a single tag, class, ID, or attribute. It can also be a combination of those elements.

Below are a series of selectors and property/value combinations that we'll apply to our CSS Demo page

/* Targeting the entire page */
body {
  font: 1.2em sans-serif;
}

/* Targeting an HTML tag */
h1 {
  /* Color name */
  color: black;

  /* 6 digit hex  */
  background: #ababab;

  /* Margin: property for each side */
  margin-bottom: 15px;
  margin-top: 15px;

  /* Shorthand: Padding applies to all sides  */
  padding: 10px;

  /* 3 digit hex and border shorthand */
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
}

/* Overriding inherited styles */
span {
  color: #004578;
}

/* Targeting a class name  */
.tiles {
  display: flex;
}

/* Decendant selector */
.tiles img {
  width: 100%;
}

/* Direct decendant selector */
.tiles > div {
  /* rgb colors */
  background: rgb(10, 10, 10);
  color: white;
  flex-basis: 100%;
  /* Longhand goes clockwise from top
  10px - all
  10px 20px - top/bottom left/right
  10px 20px 15px - top left/right bottom
  */
  padding: 10px 20px 15px;
  margin: 10px 20px 10px 0;
  border: 1px solid white;
}

/* Qualified selector */
div.links {
  background: #004578;
}

/* Style inheritance only works for unstyled elements */
a {
  color: white;
}

/* Pseudo hover selector */
a:hover {
  color: #ccc;
}

/* Sibling selectors */
a ~ a {
  /* Changing elements from inline to block */
  display: block;
}

/* Positional Pseudo Selectors  */
.tiles > div:last-child {
  /* overrides margin-right but leaves other margins alone */
  margin-right: 0;
}

/* ID selector */
#contact-form {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

/* Attribute selector */
input[type='submit'] {
  margin-top: 10px;
}

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