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CSS. CSS. Cascading Style sheets Enhances look and feel of the site Adds more features to plain HTML Can define properties as Styles Three ways of adding CSS: External Inline Internal. Overview. Placing CSS Advantages Selectors CSS Text Colors Links Lists Layers Cursors
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CSS • Cascading Style sheets • Enhances look and feel of the site • Adds more features to plain HTML • Can define properties as Styles • Three ways of adding CSS: • External • Inline • Internal Softsmith Infotech
Overview • Placing CSS • Advantages • Selectors • CSS • Text • Colors • Links • Lists • Layers • Cursors • Scrollbars Softsmith Infotech
Inline • With the help of STYLE attribute of each tag we can define CSS styles. • <P STYLE=“color:red;”></P> will render all texts with in the P tags in red color Softsmith Infotech
Internal • <STYLE TYPE = “text/css”> will enable us to add CSS to our HTML page • This should be defined in the head section • The style is applied to elements with in that page Softsmith Infotech
External • Using LINK tag we can define CSS properties to our page • We can refer to an external file that is of type .css and the properties defined there will be used in the page where we refer. • This can be used if we need the style to be applied throughout the website. • <link rel=stylesheet href=“sample.css" type="text/css"> Softsmith Infotech
Advantages • Can define styles in one file and can re use it through out instead of repeating everywhere • Can easily modify the look of the whole website • Can easily maintain consistency in design • Can redefine existing tags (either locally or globally) or even define our own styles. Softsmith Infotech
Selectors • Tag Selector • When defined for a tag, the same property is applied through out • Class Selector • When defined for a class, same tag can have different classes, and in each class the tag’s behavior varies • ID Selector • For each ID we can define properties Softsmith Infotech
CSS Text • Font-family • Font-style • Font-variant • Font-weight • Font-size Softsmith Infotech
CSS Color • Color • Background-color • Background-image • Background-repeat • Background-attachment • Background-position • Background Softsmith Infotech
Color representation • Common Name • RGB • Hexadecimal Softsmith Infotech
CSS Links • A:link • A:visited • A:active • A:hover • We can define any text properties • text-decoration:none or text-decoration:underline Softsmith Infotech
CSS Lists • list-style • type • position • image Softsmith Infotech
CSS Layers • Div tag • Z-index property • Position property • These will handle the layering Softsmith Infotech
CSS Cursors • We can configure cursors on our page • In the CSS definition just add • Cursor:<<type name>> • eg. body{Cursor:hand;} Softsmith Infotech
Scrollbars • scrollbar-arrow-color: yellow; • scrollbar-base-color: black; • scrollbar-dark-shadow-color: yellow; • scrollbar-track-color: green; • scrollbar-face-color: blue; • scrollbar-shadow-color: white; • scrollbar-highlight-color: silver; • scrollbar-3d-light-color: black; Softsmith Infotech