From the course: HTML for Educators
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What is CSS?
- [Instructor] Throughout this course, we've been focused on the HTML code that wraps around our content, creating HTML elements. But now it's time to shift our focus to manipulating the look and placement of those elements. We do that with cascading style sheets or CSS. CSS is a set of rules that you write to describe how you want each element on your page to look. There is no possible way that I can teach you everything about CSS rules in a single chapter or even course, for that matter. Instead, my hope is that after working through this chapter, you'll have a better foundation for getting started. I have syllabus.html open in my editor and a live preview of the page open in my browser. There are three ways to add style information to your pages: inline with the style attribute inside of any HTML tag; inside of a style tag; or externally, in a dedicated style sheet. We'll look at inline styles and external style sheets in later movies. Inside of the head of this page, create an…
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