CSS text styling tutorial

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Learning goals

• Understand the structure of cascading stylesheet (CSS) rules
• Learn how to include CSS in HTML files and/or how to associate a CSS file with HTML
• Understand how to use moderatly complex selectors
• Learn how to style text elements
• Deal with different media (and browers)
• Be able to find CSS documentation (selectors, properties, compatibility tables)

Prerequisites

• Basic HTML, e.g. the HTML and XHTML elements and attributes tutorial
• CSS tutorial (i.e. basic knowledge about CSS rules)

Moving on

• CSS positioning tutorial
• CSS for XML tutorial
• DHTML

Level and target population

• Beginners

Remarks

• This tutorial is intended for students in educational technology or any other field that is technology intensive. For people who need less, there exist many easy CSS tutorials on the web. This text is intended for students who also must learn principles and who are willing to learn more CSS by looking at CSS code and online reference manuals. Ideally, a teacher also should introduce CSS through hands-on lab activities (after, during or before assigning this tutorial for reading).