Cascading Style Sheets

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
(Prerequisite: Intermediate Applications of HTML or equivalent experience.) This course covers using Cascading Style Sheets to effectively and efficiently format and position Web page elements. Learn to create Cascading Style Sheets to add presentation-type effects, visual qualities, and layout options to your Web pages. Learn to create drop caps, insert page breaks for printing, place images and other Web elements on your page, incorporate links that change color as the mouse passes over them, and access additional text and font properties. Understand how to create style sheets that are embedded in a particular page, external style sheets that can be used by multiple sheets, and inline styles that apply to a particular occurrence. Topics include the STYLE, LINK, and @import tags and the style attribute of standard HTML tags. Additional topics include font, text, color, background, and positioning properties unavailable with standard HTML attributes and tags. Style classes and rules of precedence for overlapping styles will also be covered. [Table of Contents]
Fee: $189


One-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (6.5 hours)
Code Date Location Instructor
G0589 Tues., Nov. 10West CountyJulia Otto
G0884 Wed., Feb. 3West CountyJulia Otto
Intermediate Application of Cascading Style Sheets
(Prerequisite: Introduction to CSS or equivalent experience.) Build on your CSS knowledge from the introductory class to create page layouts and multiple-column formats using CSS and DIV tags. This class will show you how to use floats to position items and wrap text, nest floats, use negative margins, and create fixed and liquid layouts. Learn to build horizontal and vertical navigation bars with rollover features. Other topics include formatting tables with CSS, working with graphics, and adding styles to links. Learn some of the problems in working with multiple browsers and the troubleshooting techniques that fix Internet Explorer bugs. [Table of Contents]
Fee: $189

One-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (6.5 hours)
Code Date Location Instructor
G0590 Tues., Nov. 17West CountyJulia Otto
G0885 Wed., Feb. 10West CountyJulia Otto