complete css guide
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Welcome to the Complete CSS Guide, a reference to every aspect of cascading style sheets. If you need help learning CSS or if you're looking for info about selectors, properties and all the other aspects of cascading style sheets, this is the place.
An extended version of this guide with extra sections and integrated browser support information is available for purchase and download. You can get the Complete CSS Guide
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Where do I start?
That all depends what you're looking for.
New to CSS? Start by reading the introduction to this guide to really understand what cascading style sheets are and how they work. For a more hands on approach take a look as well at the Style Master CSS Tutorial. This tutorial also comes as part of the demo download of our CSS editor for Windows and Mac OS X, Style Master.
Looking for something in particular? If you're looking for detailed information about a CSS property, selector or other feature you're sure to find it in the table of contents below.
While you are here don't miss our articles, tutorials, and our other CSS resources..
Part 1: Introduction
About this guide
What's new in CSS Level 2, revision 1?
Who is this guide for?
What will we cover?
How to use this guide
Browser support information
CSS intro
Where do style sheets come from?
The W3C
A history of CSS specifications
The CSS Mobile Profile
Why doesn't everyone use CSS?
Why should I use CSS?
What exactly is a style sheet?
Proprietary CSS extensions
CSS v HTML
How do style sheets work?
The parts of a style sheet
Style sheet syntax
Linking and embedding a style sheet
Embedding style sheets
Linking to style sheets
Statements
@rules
@import
@media
@page
Comments
HTML comment tags
Rules
Part 2: Selectors
Selectors introduction
What do selectors do?
Types of selector
Type selectors
Types of element
Class selectors
ID selectors
Descendant selectors
Link pseudo class selectors
Pseudo element selectors
Dynamic pseudo class selectors
Language pseudo class selectors
Child selectors
First child selectors
Adjacent sibling selectors
Attribute selectors
Part 3: Properties
Properties introduction
What are properties?
How to read the property guide
Text style properties
color
font-weight
font-family
font-size
font-variant
font-style
text-decoration
text-transform
Text layout properties
letter-spacing
word-spacing
line-height
vertical-align
text-indent
text-align
direction
unicode-bidi
Background properties
background-color
background-image
background-attachment
background-repeat
background-position
background
Border properties
Unscrambling the border mess
border-width, border-top-width, border-left-width, border-bottom-width, border-right-width
border-color
border-style
border, border-top, border-left, border-bottom, border-right
Margin properties
margin
margin-top
margin-left
margin-bottom
margin-right
Padding properties
padding
padding-top
padding-left
padding-bottom
padding-right
Page layout properties
Introduction to positioning with CSS
The big picture
A note about "layers"
Ways of positioning
Static positioning
Absolute positioning
Fixed positioning
Relative positioning
position
top
left
bottom
right
width
min-width
max-width
height
min-height
max-height
z-index
visibility
overflow
float
clear
clip
Element type properties
display
white-space
list-style-type
list-style-image
list-style-position
list-style
border-collapse
border-spacing
caption-side
empty-cells
table-layout
User interface properties
cursor
outline
outline-color
outline-style
outline-width
Values
Length values
Percentage values
Color values
Keyword values
Shape values
Part 4: Advanced CSS
Advanced CSS introduction
Cascade and inheritance
Cascade
Managing style at large sites using @import
Specificity
Inheritance
Generated content
content
quotes
Counters and counter properties
counter
counters
counter-reset
counter-increment
Media
The @media rule
Types of media
Media specific importing using @import
Printing
The @page rule
Page specific properties
margin, margin-left, margin-right, margin-top, margin-bottom
Page breaking properties
page-break-before
page-break-after
page-break-inside
orphans
widows
CSS Mobile Profile
Selectors in the CSS Mobile Profile
Properties in the CSS Mobile Profile
Part 5: Real world CSS
Real world CSS introduction
Tables with CSS
Standards-based HTML 4.0
Borders
Color
Evening things up
browser support
"It doesn't work": a word of warning
The difficulties: partial support, buggy support, no support
No support
Partial and buggy support
Missing features
Broken features
Designing for the web
Introduction
Same old new medium?
Controlling web pages
Why does it matter?
The way
Fonts
Layouts
Colors
The journey
Validating
Validating HTML
Why validate?
What is validating?
So how do I do this?
Online validators
Stand-alone validators
Validate your style sheets
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CSS for beginers
CSS is an excellent addition to plain HTML.
With plain HTML you define the colors and sizes of text and tables throughout your pages. If you want to change a certain element you will therefore have to work your way through the document and change it.
With CSS you define the colors and sizes in "styles". Then as you write your documents you refer to the styles. Therefore: if you change a certain style it will change the look of your entire site.
Another big advantage is that CSS offers much more detailed attributes than plain HTML for defining the look and feel of your site.
Finally, CSS can be written so the user will only need to download it once - in the external style sheet document. When surfing the rest of your site the CSS will be cached on the users computer, and therefore speed up the loading time.
The only reason not to use CSS in your design is not knowing how!
CSS lessons for beginers are given below :
http://www.csstutorial.net/
http://articles.sitepoint.com/category/css
With plain HTML you define the colors and sizes of text and tables throughout your pages. If you want to change a certain element you will therefore have to work your way through the document and change it.
With CSS you define the colors and sizes in "styles". Then as you write your documents you refer to the styles. Therefore: if you change a certain style it will change the look of your entire site.
Another big advantage is that CSS offers much more detailed attributes than plain HTML for defining the look and feel of your site.
Finally, CSS can be written so the user will only need to download it once - in the external style sheet document. When surfing the rest of your site the CSS will be cached on the users computer, and therefore speed up the loading time.
The only reason not to use CSS in your design is not knowing how!
CSS lessons for beginers are given below :
http://www.csstutorial.net/
http://articles.sitepoint.com/category/css
CSS basic
Learn CSS step by step
This website is all about CSS, a key tool in web design. In case you’re not familiar with CSS: CSS is the sister technology to HTML that is used to style your web pages. The details are in the tutorial, but for now we can say that CSS can make your web pages look great!
Learn CSS step by step
This website is all about CSS, a key tool in web design. In case you’re not familiar with CSS: CSS is the sister technology to HTML that is used to style your web pages. The details are in the tutorial, but for now we can say that CSS can make your web pages look great!
CSS Tips and Tricks Newsletter:
My CSS basics newsletter will let you know when any new articles, tutorials and videos on CSS are released.
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Video introducing CSS
I’ve just created a beginners video on CSS to help you guys get going a little faster. My suggestion would be to watch the video and then come back here and do the tutorial. Introduction to CSS Video Tutorial
Written with beginners in mind
As with all my writing, I tried to make this web design tutorial on CSS as easy as possible to follow. Instead of a boring-nerd centric style, I’ve used more of a conversational style.
This tutorial website is like anything else in life; you get back what you put into it. So if you really want to learn how to design great looking pages, resist the temptation to stop halfway to use a web design program like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. By finishing the tutorial you will gain a big advantage over all the others out there that gave up!
Don’t get me wrong, this stuff isn’t that hard; it’s just that some people are really lazy!
How this website is set up
The website has 3 major sections:
The introduction to CSS
We cover the basics and show you a few neat tricks.
A complete CSS tutorial
We get down and dirty here giving you a solid foundation in CSS so you can use it in your own web design work right away!
Additional CSS Resources
Supporting articles on CSS web design and a link takes you to an active CSS forum where you can ask any questions you may have.
Once completed, you will have taken the next step towards total nerd glory with these articles on creating a pure CSS web page. Not just CSS styling, but CSS positioning too, that means no tables required!
Once completed, you will be creating pages in sophisticated ways that 99% of web designers don’t even consider! Needless to say, you will have an advantage over the competition. All this is 100% standards compliant and should work in 99% of browsers being used today.
CSS lessons are given below :
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
This website is all about CSS, a key tool in web design. In case you’re not familiar with CSS: CSS is the sister technology to HTML that is used to style your web pages. The details are in the tutorial, but for now we can say that CSS can make your web pages look great!
Learn CSS step by step
This website is all about CSS, a key tool in web design. In case you’re not familiar with CSS: CSS is the sister technology to HTML that is used to style your web pages. The details are in the tutorial, but for now we can say that CSS can make your web pages look great!
CSS Tips and Tricks Newsletter:
My CSS basics newsletter will let you know when any new articles, tutorials and videos on CSS are released.
Unsubscribe
Video introducing CSS
I’ve just created a beginners video on CSS to help you guys get going a little faster. My suggestion would be to watch the video and then come back here and do the tutorial. Introduction to CSS Video Tutorial
Written with beginners in mind
As with all my writing, I tried to make this web design tutorial on CSS as easy as possible to follow. Instead of a boring-nerd centric style, I’ve used more of a conversational style.
This tutorial website is like anything else in life; you get back what you put into it. So if you really want to learn how to design great looking pages, resist the temptation to stop halfway to use a web design program like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. By finishing the tutorial you will gain a big advantage over all the others out there that gave up!
Don’t get me wrong, this stuff isn’t that hard; it’s just that some people are really lazy!
How this website is set up
The website has 3 major sections:
The introduction to CSS
We cover the basics and show you a few neat tricks.
A complete CSS tutorial
We get down and dirty here giving you a solid foundation in CSS so you can use it in your own web design work right away!
Additional CSS Resources
Supporting articles on CSS web design and a link takes you to an active CSS forum where you can ask any questions you may have.
Once completed, you will have taken the next step towards total nerd glory with these articles on creating a pure CSS web page. Not just CSS styling, but CSS positioning too, that means no tables required!
Once completed, you will be creating pages in sophisticated ways that 99% of web designers don’t even consider! Needless to say, you will have an advantage over the competition. All this is 100% standards compliant and should work in 99% of browsers being used today.
CSS lessons are given below :
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
XHTML tutorials
INTRODUCTION :
XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML.
In this tutorial you will learn the difference between HTML and XHTML. We will also show you how W3Schools.com was converted into XHTML.
SELECT LESSON BELOW :
XHTML Tutorial
XHTML HOME
XHTML Introduction
XHTML Why
XHTML vs HTML
XHTML Syntax
XHTML DTD
XHTML HowTo
XHTML Validation
XHTML Modules
XHTML Summary
XHTML Quiz
XHTML Quiz
XHTML Certificate
XHTML References
XHTML Tag List
XHTML Attributes
XHTML Events
XHTML Colornames
XHTML Character Sets
XHTML ASCII
XHTML ISO-8859-1
XHTML Symbols
XHTML URL Encode
XHTML Lang Codes
HTTP Messages
XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML.
In this tutorial you will learn the difference between HTML and XHTML. We will also show you how W3Schools.com was converted into XHTML.
SELECT LESSON BELOW :
XHTML Tutorial
XHTML HOME
XHTML Introduction
XHTML Why
XHTML vs HTML
XHTML Syntax
XHTML DTD
XHTML HowTo
XHTML Validation
XHTML Modules
XHTML Summary
XHTML Quiz
XHTML Quiz
XHTML Certificate
XHTML References
XHTML Tag List
XHTML Attributes
XHTML Events
XHTML Colornames
XHTML Character Sets
XHTML ASCII
XHTML ISO-8859-1
XHTML Symbols
XHTML URL Encode
XHTML Lang Codes
HTTP Messages
XHTML for beginers
Introduction
Although many people have never heard of it, XHTML is really the future of the internet. It is the newest generation of HTML (comming after HTML 4) but has many new features which mean that it is, in some ways, like XML. In this tutorial I will explain how XHTML differs from HTML and how you can update your pages to support it.
Note: It is necessary to already have a basic understanding of HTML before reading this tutorial as it deals with the differences between XHTML and HTML.
XHTML lessons are given below:
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/xhtml
http://webdesign.about.com/od/htmlxhtmltutorials/HTML_Tutorials_XHTML_Tutorials.htm
Although many people have never heard of it, XHTML is really the future of the internet. It is the newest generation of HTML (comming after HTML 4) but has many new features which mean that it is, in some ways, like XML. In this tutorial I will explain how XHTML differs from HTML and how you can update your pages to support it.
Note: It is necessary to already have a basic understanding of HTML before reading this tutorial as it deals with the differences between XHTML and HTML.
XHTML lessons are given below:
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/xhtml
http://webdesign.about.com/od/htmlxhtmltutorials/HTML_Tutorials_XHTML_Tutorials.htm
XHTML tutorials basic
XHTML Tutorial
This site is dedicated to providing free, in-depth XHTML tutorials and examples.
Table of Contents
Why XHTML?
Explains the differences between XHTML and HTML, as well as the benefits of adopting XHTML.
XHTML Introduction
An Introduction to XHTML.
XHTML Basics
Covers the XHTML basics, including head, body, title and paragraph elements.
XHTML Example
This XHTML example covers how to declare and properly set up an XHTML page.
XHTML Elements
Explains XHTML elements and how to use them.
XHTML Attributes
Explains XHTML attributes and rules for using them in your webpages.
Declaring a DocType
Covers XHTML 1.0 Strict, Transitional, and Frameset compatibility levels and a sample XHTML doctype declaration.
XHTML Head
XHTML Head contains information describing the contents of the page, learn how to use it in this tutorial.
XHTML Encoding
How to specify the encoding of your XHTML document.
XHTML Namespace
Describes the purpose of the XHTML namespace, and how to declare it.
XHTML Headers
XHTML section headers are a powerful way to give your document structure and meaning. This tutorial explains how to use the 6 built-in section headers to separate and organize your document into smaller, more managable chunks. Metaphorically speaking, it's like making the most important points jump off the page as if on trampolines and building sheds to keep the gritty details.
XHTML Images
Adding images to your XHTML pages.
XHTML Links
How to add a hyperlink to your XHTML page.
XHTML Line Breaks
Browsers automatically wrap text according to the width of the block or window, only starting new lines when necessary. This tutorial covers how to manually specify line breaks in your XHTML pages using the
tag.
XHTML Lists
How to create a list of items in an XHTML page.
XHTML Tables
How to structure tabular data on a Web page using XHTML tables.
XHTML Frames
Using XHTML frames for advanced page layouts.
XHTML Form
Sending data to your Web server using XHTML forms.
XHTML Comments
This tutorial explains how to document and help make sense of your Web page using XHTML comments.
XHTML Divisions
This tutorial covers breaking up your page into divisions using the XHTML div tag, allowing you to apply formatting styles to regions of a page using CSS.
XHTML Span
This tutorial covers the use of the XHTML span tag to name smaller pieces of text and other inline elements to identify them and apply styles to them.
XHTML Validation
How to validate (verify) the syntax of your XHTML pages.
XHTML DOM
Understanding the XHTML Document Object Model (DOM).
XHTML and CSS
Using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
XHTML and XML
Understanding the relationship between XHTML and XML.
XHTML and JavaScript
Extending your XHTML pages using JavaScript.
XHTML Browsers
Important information about common Web browsers and their support for XHTML technologies.
XHTML Standard
About the XHTML standard - who made it and why?
XHTML DTD
Describes the XHTML Document Type Definition (DTD).
XHTML 1.1
What's new in the XHTML 1.1 standard?
XHTML Guidelines
Expert tips, advice and guidlines for writing professional XHTML pages.
XHTML FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about XHTML.
This site is dedicated to providing free, in-depth XHTML tutorials and examples.
Table of Contents
Why XHTML?
Explains the differences between XHTML and HTML, as well as the benefits of adopting XHTML.
XHTML Introduction
An Introduction to XHTML.
XHTML Basics
Covers the XHTML basics, including head, body, title and paragraph elements.
XHTML Example
This XHTML example covers how to declare and properly set up an XHTML page.
XHTML Elements
Explains XHTML elements and how to use them.
XHTML Attributes
Explains XHTML attributes and rules for using them in your webpages.
Declaring a DocType
Covers XHTML 1.0 Strict, Transitional, and Frameset compatibility levels and a sample XHTML doctype declaration.
XHTML Head
XHTML Head contains information describing the contents of the page, learn how to use it in this tutorial.
XHTML Encoding
How to specify the encoding of your XHTML document.
XHTML Namespace
Describes the purpose of the XHTML namespace, and how to declare it.
XHTML Headers
XHTML section headers are a powerful way to give your document structure and meaning. This tutorial explains how to use the 6 built-in section headers to separate and organize your document into smaller, more managable chunks. Metaphorically speaking, it's like making the most important points jump off the page as if on trampolines and building sheds to keep the gritty details.
XHTML Images
Adding images to your XHTML pages.
XHTML Links
How to add a hyperlink to your XHTML page.
XHTML Line Breaks
Browsers automatically wrap text according to the width of the block or window, only starting new lines when necessary. This tutorial covers how to manually specify line breaks in your XHTML pages using the
tag.
XHTML Lists
How to create a list of items in an XHTML page.
XHTML Tables
How to structure tabular data on a Web page using XHTML tables.
XHTML Frames
Using XHTML frames for advanced page layouts.
XHTML Form
Sending data to your Web server using XHTML forms.
XHTML Comments
This tutorial explains how to document and help make sense of your Web page using XHTML comments.
XHTML Divisions
This tutorial covers breaking up your page into divisions using the XHTML div tag, allowing you to apply formatting styles to regions of a page using CSS.
XHTML Span
This tutorial covers the use of the XHTML span tag to name smaller pieces of text and other inline elements to identify them and apply styles to them.
XHTML Validation
How to validate (verify) the syntax of your XHTML pages.
XHTML DOM
Understanding the XHTML Document Object Model (DOM).
XHTML and CSS
Using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
XHTML and XML
Understanding the relationship between XHTML and XML.
XHTML and JavaScript
Extending your XHTML pages using JavaScript.
XHTML Browsers
Important information about common Web browsers and their support for XHTML technologies.
XHTML Standard
About the XHTML standard - who made it and why?
XHTML DTD
Describes the XHTML Document Type Definition (DTD).
XHTML 1.1
What's new in the XHTML 1.1 standard?
XHTML Guidelines
Expert tips, advice and guidlines for writing professional XHTML pages.
XHTML FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about XHTML.
HTML tutorials
Welcome
Welcome to the Idocs Guide to HTML. Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere. We're particularly proud of the tutorials on frames and on forms.
Sections
Anchors and Links
Applets
Character Entity References
Document Tags
Embedded Objects
Fonts
Forms
Frames
Ignore-Me Code
Images
Lines and Paragraphs
Lists
Logical Tags
Scripts
Sounds
Style Sheets
Tables
More Resources
Resource Directory
a couple of weird tags
Welcome to the Idocs Guide to HTML. Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere. We're particularly proud of the tutorials on frames and on forms.
Sections
Anchors and Links
Applets
Character Entity References
Document Tags
Embedded Objects
Fonts
Forms
Frames
Ignore-Me Code
Images
Lines and Paragraphs
Lists
Logical Tags
Scripts
Sounds
Style Sheets
Tables
More Resources
Resource Directory
a couple of weird tags
basic html tutorials
You can use this tutorial either as a complete introduction or as an A-Z reference to HTML.
The pages are packed with:
Easy to understand explanations, massive examples, tips, smart workarounds and useful quick references.
If you're completely new to HTML you should start with the section that covers HTML Basics.
Otherwise, just jump directly to the relevant pages.
http://www.pagetutor.com/index.html
http://www.echoecho.com/html.htm
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
HTML tutorials for beginers
With HTML you can easily create your own Web sites.
This tutorial will tell you everything about HTML.
HTML is easy to understand and easy to learn - You will enjoy these lessons.
HTML lessons for beginers are given below :
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
http://www.htmltutorials.ca/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
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