SkillSoft Explore Course – Lambers, Inc.

Collections Developer Collection Scripting and Web Languages CSS3, Sass and Less

CSS3 has a range of styling options for text and list presentation. In this course, you will learn how to use rule sets to create styles, how to group and apply styles, and how to apply styles for effective content display.

Asset ID	wd_cssh_a01_it_enus
Course Type	Video Course
Course Category	Developer Collection

Objectives
Introducing CSS start the course introduce CSS3 and demonstrate how styles can be applied to content describe user agent stylesheets and override them with a CSS Reset demonstrate how to use a rule set to apply a CSS style describe how CSS styles are inherited and cascaded describe how to implement inline CSS styles and discuss their drawbacks implement internal CSS styles reference external CSS style sheets Working with Selectors describe basic CSS selectors including the universal, type and id, and class selectors group CSS selectors using child and sibling combinators use CSS attribute selectors to apply styles based one or more of an element's attributes describe CSS pseudo-classes, reasons for their use, benefits and drawbacks, and use pseudo-classes to apply styles describe CSS pseudo-elements, reasons for their use, benefits and drawbacks, and use pseudo-elements to apply styles modify the specificity of a CSS selector Text Styling use the CSS3 font face rule to apply a web font face use CSS properties to style text use CSS properties such as direction, text-align, text-indent, text-spacing, and word-spacing to position text use CSS text decoration (including level 3 shorthand) use CSS pseudo selectors to style the first letter or line of a paragraph Working with Lists use CSS to style lists use CSS to create custom bulleted lists Practice: Styling Text and Lists with CSS3 practice styling text with CSS3

Objectives

Introducing CSS

start the course
introduce CSS3 and demonstrate how styles can be applied to content
describe user agent stylesheets and override them with a CSS Reset
demonstrate how to use a rule set to apply a CSS style
describe how CSS styles are inherited and cascaded
describe how to implement inline CSS styles and discuss their drawbacks
implement internal CSS styles
reference external CSS style sheets

Working with Selectors

describe basic CSS selectors including the universal, type and id, and class selectors
group CSS selectors using child and sibling combinators
use CSS attribute selectors to apply styles based one or more of an element's attributes
describe CSS pseudo-classes, reasons for their use, benefits and drawbacks, and use pseudo-classes to apply styles
describe CSS pseudo-elements, reasons for their use, benefits and drawbacks, and use pseudo-elements to apply styles
modify the specificity of a CSS selector

Text Styling

use the CSS3 font face rule to apply a web font face
use CSS properties to style text
use CSS properties such as direction, text-align, text-indent, text-spacing, and word-spacing to position text
use CSS text decoration (including level 3 shorthand)
use CSS pseudo selectors to style the first letter or line of a paragraph

Working with Lists

use CSS to style lists
use CSS to create custom bulleted lists

Practice: Styling Text and Lists with CSS3

practice styling text with CSS3