COAP:COAP-3120/week2

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COAP 3120 Week 1 program

Main learning goals

  • Be able to include CSS in an HTML document: external files, internal style sheets, @import, inline
  • Understand CSS rules: Selectors and properties
  • Be able to format longer text
  • Be able to use HTML elements made for CSS (div and span)
  • Use of text/HTML/CSS editors
  • Use browser extensions for checking HTML and CSS validity, and analyzing pages
  • Think about good style and good visual style

Monday

HTML principles

  • The three dominant HTML families (HTML 4x, XHTML 1x, HTML5), a short introduction
  • The (X)HTML div and span tags

Selectors

  • tags, position of tages, pseudo-tags

CSS properties for formatting text

Classroom activities

(1) Find a long text you want to work on. HTML must be clean and simple. Suggestions:

(2) Start working on homework 1, i.e. create a layout that is both visually pleasing and "readable"


Wednesday

Homework 1

  • Styling of a text document, details TBA

Reading

  • Chapter 2, The Bits that make up a Style Sheet
  • Chapter 3, Selectors (only pp 39-49)
  • Chapter 5, Applying Font Faces (only 73-82)
  • Chapter 6, Manipulating the Display of Text (only: “Line height” section)
  • Chapter 8, The Box Model (only: Margins section)