HTML5 and CSS3

7th Edition

Tutorial 4
Graphic Design with CSS
 Objectives XP

• Create a figure box

• Add a background image
• Add a border to an element
• Create rounded borders
• Create a graphic border
• Create a text shadow

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 Objectives (continued) XP

• Create a box shadow

• Create linear and radial gradients
• Set the opacity of an element
• Apply a 2D and 3D transformation
• Apply a CSS filter
• Create an image map

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 Creating Figure Boxes XP

• figure and figcaption elements:

– They are used by HTML5 to introduce structural
elements
– The figcaption element is optional
– The figcaption element can be placed directly
before or after a figure box content

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 Creating Figure Boxes (continued 1)
XP

• The general syntax to create a figure box is as

follows:
<figure>
content
<figcaption>caption text</figcaption>
</figure>
– content is the content appearing in a figure box
– caption text is the description text that
accompanies the figure

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 Creating Figure Boxes (continued 2)
XP

• The figure element – Used to mark a page

content that should stand apart from the main
content

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 Exploring Background Styles XP

• The use of images for backgrounds is

supported by CSS using the following
background-image style:
background-image: url(url);
− url specifies the name and location of the
background image

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 Tiling a Background Image XP

• Tiling – The process of repeating an image both

vertically and horizontally until the background is
filled
• The type of tiling can be specified by applying the
following background-repeat style:
background-repeat: type;
where type can be repeat (the default), repeat-
x, repeat-y, round, or space

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 Tiling a Background Image
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(continued)

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 Attaching the Background Image XP

• A background image is attached to its element

so that it scrolls when the element content is
scrolled
• The attachment can be changed using the
following property:
background-attachment: type;
where type is scroll (the default), fixed, or
local

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 Attaching the Background Image
XP
(continued 1)
• type in the background-attachment
property:
– scroll sets the background to scroll with the
element content
– fixed creates a background that stays in place
even as the element content is scrolled
– local allows the element background to scroll
along with the content within the box

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 Attaching the Background Image
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(continued 2)
• Watermarks:
– Translucent graphics displayed behind a content
– They can be created using fixed backgrounds
– Often used to indicate that a content material is
copyrighted

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 Setting the Background Image XP
Position
• By default, background images are placed in
an element’s top-left corner
• The following property can be used to set the
position of a background image:
background-position: horizontal
vertical;
where horizontal and vertical provide the
coordinates of an image within the element
background

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 Setting the Background Image XP
Position (continued)
• Keywords to position a background image are
as follows:
– left, center, and right are used to position the
background horizontally
– top, center, and bottom are used to position the
background vertically
• The background-position property is only
useful for non-tiled images

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 Defining the Extent of the
XP
Background
• An element’s background extends only
through the padding space excluding the
border space
• This can be changed using the following
property:
background-clip: type;

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 Defining the Extent of the
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Background (continued)
• type in the background-clip property:
– content-box extends the background only
through the element content
– padding-box extends the background through
the padding space
– border-box extends the background through
the border space

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 Sizing and Clipping an Image XP

• By default, the size of a background image

equals the size stored in its image file
• This size can be changed by using the following
property:
background-size: width height;
where width and height can be specified in
pixels or by using the keywords auto, cover,
and contain

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 Sizing and Clipping an Image
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(continued)

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 The background Property XP

• Different background options can be organized

using the following property:
background: color url(url)
position/size repeat attachment origin
clip;
– color is the background color
– url is the source of the background image
– position is the image’s position
– size sets the image size
– repeat sets the tiling of the image
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 The background Property
XP
(continued)
– attachment specifies whether the image scrolls
with the content or is fixed
– origin defines how positions are measured on the
background
– clip specifies the extent over which the background
is spread

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 Adding Multiple Backgrounds XP

• Multiple backgrounds can be added to a single

element by listing the backgrounds in the
following comma-separated list:
background: background1, background2, …;

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 Setting Border Width and Color XP

• There are several style properties that can be

used to format the border around each
element using CSS
• To define the thickness of a specific border,
the following property can be used:
border-side-width: width;

– side is either top, right, bottom, or left

– width is the width of the border

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 Setting the Border Design XP

• The appearance of borders can be further

defined by using the following style:
border-side-style: style;

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 Creating Rounded Corners XP

• Any of the four corners of a border can be

rounded off by applying the following
property:
border-radius: top-left top-right
bottom-right bottom-left;
where top-left, top-right, bottom-right,
and bottom-left are the radii of the individual
corners

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 Creating Rounded Corners
XP
(continued 1)

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 Creating Rounded Corners
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(continued 2)

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 Applying a Border Image XP

• A border image is a border based on a graphic

image
• The graphic image is sliced into nine sections
representing the four corners, the four sides,
and the interior piece
• The content of the object appears in the
interior piece and this piece is discarded

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 Applying a Border Image
XP
(continued 1)
• The four corners become the corners of the
border
• The four sides are either stretched or tiled to
fill in the border’s top, right, bottom, and left
sides

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 Applying a Border Image
XP
(continued 2)
• A border image is applied using the following
property:
border-image: url(url) slice repeat;
− url indicates the source of the graphic image
− slice indicates the width or height of the slice
used to create the sides and corners
− repeat indicates whether the side slices should
be stretched or tiled to cover the four sides of the
border

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 Applying a Border Image
XP
(continued 3)
• The repeat option supports the following values:
– stretch: The slices are stretched to fill each side
– repeat: The slices are tiled to fill each side
– round: When the slices are tiled to fill each side, if
they do not fill the sides with an integer number of
tiles, the slices are rescaled until they do
– space: When the slices are tiled to fill each side, if
they do not fill the sides with an integer number of
tiles, extra space is distributed around the tiles

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 Applying a Border Image
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(continued 4)

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 Creating a Text Shadow XP

• A shadow can be added to a text on a page, to

give the text a visual impact, by using the
following property:
text-shadow: color offsetX offsetY
blur;
− color is the shadow color
− offsetX and offsetY are the distances of the
shadow from the text in the horizontal and
vertical directions
− blur creates a blurred effect by spreading out a
shadow
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 Creating a Text Shadow
XP
(continued)

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 Creating a Box Shadow XP

• Any block element can be shadowed by using

the box-shadow property
box-shadow: color offsetX offsetY
blur;
where color, offsetX, offsetY, and
blur have the same meanings for box
shadows as they do for text shadows
• Multiple shadows can be added by including
them in a comma-separated list

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 Creating a Box Shadow
XP
(continued 1)

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 Creating a Box Shadow
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(continued 2)

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 Applying a Color Gradient XP

• Color gradient:
– One color gradually blends into another color or
fades away if transparent colors are used
– It can be used to modify a background color
• Linear gradient:
– Background colors transition from a starting color
to an ending color along a straight line
– The default direction is vertical, starting from top
and moving to bottom

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 Applying a Color Gradient
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(continued)

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 Gradients and Color Stops XP

• The colors specified in a gradient are evenly

distributed
• The following gradient starts with a solid red,
solid green appears halfway through the
gradient, and finishes with solid blue:
background: linear-gradient(red,
green, blue)

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 Gradients and Color Stops
XP
(continued)

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 Creating a Radial Gradient XP

• Radial gradient:
– It is a color gradient that starts from a central
point
– It proceeds outward in a series of concentric
circles or ellipses

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 Creating a Radial Gradient
XP
(continued 1)
• Radial gradients are created using the
following radial-gradient function:
radial-gradient(shape size at
position, color-stop1, color-stop2, …)
– shape defines the shape of the gradient
– position defines where the gradients radiate
from
– color-stop1, color-stop2, … specify
the colors and their stopping positions

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 Creating a Radial Gradient
XP
(continued 2)
• The size value in the radial-gradient
function:
– defines the extent of the gradient as it radiates
outward
– can be expressed with a CSS unit of measure
– can be expressed as a percentage of the
background’s width and height
– can also be expressed with one of the following
keywords: farthest-corner (the default),
farthest-side, closest-corner, and
closest-side
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 Creating a Radial Gradient
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 Repeating a Gradient XP

• A gradient design can be repeated to avoid the

gradient function from being complicated due
to the addition of more color stops
repeating-linear-gradient(params)
repeating-radial-gradient(params)
where params are the parameters of the
linear-gradient or the radial-gradient
functions

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 Creating Semi-Transparent Objects
XP

• Semi-Transparent colors can be created using

the opacity property

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 Transforming Page Objects XP

• Rotation, rescaling, and translation in space

can be used to transform the appearance of
page objects
transform: effect(params);
– effect is the transformation function that will
be applied to page objects
– params specify the parameters required by the
transformation function

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 Transforming Page Objects
XP
(continued 1)

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 Transforming Page Objects
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 Transformations in Three
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Dimensions
• A 3D transformation is a change that involves
three spatial axes:
– an x-axis that runs horizontally across the
page
– a y-axis that runs vertically
– a z-axis that comes straight out of the page
toward and away from the viewer

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 Transformations in Three
XP
Dimensions (continued)

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 Understanding Perspective XP

• Perspective: A measure of how rapidly objects

appear to recede from the viewer in a 3D
space
– It is used when only one object needs to be
transformed in the 3D space
• Perspective can be thought in terms of a pair
of railroad tracks that appear to converge at a
point, known as the vanishing point

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 Understanding Perspective
XP
(continued 1)
• The perspective of a 3D space can be defined
using
perspective: value;
– value is a positive value that measures the
strength of the perspective effect
– Lower value results in more extreme distortion

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 Understanding Perspective
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(continued 2)

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 Exploring CSS filters XP

• Filters adjust how a browser renders an image,

a background, or a border
• Filters modify an object’s color, brightness,
contrast, or general appearance
• Filters were originally introduced as a WebKit
browser extension

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 Exploring CSS filters (continued 1)XP
• Filters can be applied using the following
property:
filter: effect(params);
– effect is a filter function
– params specify the parameters of filter function

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 Exploring CSS filters (continued 2)XP

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 Exploring CSS filters (continued 3)XP

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 Working with Image Maps XP

• When an inline image is marked as a hyperlink,

the entire image is linked to the same file
• HTML allows an image to be divided into
different zones, or hotspots
• Hotspots can be linked to different URLs
through information given in an image map

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 Working with Image Maps
XP
(continued)
• Image maps supported by HTML:
– Client-side image map – Image map defined
within a web page and handled entirely by the
web browser
– Server-side image map – Image map that relies on
a program running on the web server to create
and administer the map

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 Defining a Client-Side Image Map XP
• Client-side image maps are defined with the
following map element:
<map name=“text”>
hotspots
</map>

– text is the name of the image map

– hotspots are the defined regions within an image
that are linked to different URLs

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 Defining a Client-Side Image Map
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(continued 1)
• They can be placed anywhere within the body
of a web page
• They are not actually displayed by browsers
• They are simply used as references for
mapping the locations of the hotspots within
the image
• The most common practice is to place a map
element below the corresponding image

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 Defining a Client-Side Image Map
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(continued 2)
• Hotspot within the map element can be defined
using the following element:
<area shape=“shape” coords=“coordinates”
href=“url” alt=“text” />
– shape is the shape of the hotspot region
– coordinates are the list of points that define the
boundaries of that region
– url is the URL of the hypertext link
– text is alternate text displayed for non-graphical
browsers
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 Defining a Client-Side Image Map
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(continued 3)
• Circular hotspots are defined using the
attributes
shape=“circle” coords=“x, y, radius”
where x and y are the coordinates of the center of
the circle and radius is the circle’s radius

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 Applying an Image Map XP

• An image map can be applied to an image

using the following usemap attribute to the img
element:
<img src=“url” alt=“text”
usemap=“#map” />
where map is the name assigned to the
image map within the current HTML file

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