CSS Part I

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – Part I Svetlin Nakov Telerik Mobile Development Course mobiledevcourse.telerik.com Technical Trainer http:// www.nakov.com

Table of Contents (Part I) What is CSS? Styling with Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) Selectors and style definitions Linking HTML and CSS Fonts, Backgrounds, Borders

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CSS Intro Styling with Cascading Stylesheets

CSS Introduction Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Used to describe the presentation of documents Define sizes, spacing, fonts, colors, layout, etc. Improve content accessibility Improve flexibility Designed to separate presentation from content Due to CSS, all HTML presentation tags and attributes are deprecated, e.g. font , center , etc.

CSS Introduction (2) CSS can be applied to any XML document Not just to HTML / XHTML CSS can specify different styles for different media On-screen In print Handheld, projection, etc. … even by voice or Braille-based reader

Why “Cascading”? Priority scheme determining which style rules apply to element Cascade priorities or specificity (weight) are calculated and assigned to the rules Child elements in the HTML DOM tree inherit styles from their parent Can override them Control via !important rule

Why “Cascading”? (3) Some CSS styles are inherited and some not Text-related and list-related properties are inherited - color , font-size , font-family , line-height , text-align , list-style , etc Box-related and positioning styles are not inherited - width , height , border , margin , padding , position , float , etc <a> elements do not inherit color and text-decoration

Style Sheets Syntax Stylesheets consist of rules, selectors, declarations, properties and values Selectors are separated by commas Declarations are separated by semicolons Properties and values are separated by colons h1,h2,h3 { color: green; font-weight: bold; } http://css.maxdesign.com.au/

Selectors Selectors determine which element the rule applies to: All elements of specific type (tag) Those that mach a specific attribute (id, class) Elements may be matched depending on how they are nested in the document tree (HTML) Examples: .header a { color: green } #menu>li { padding-top: 8px }

Selectors (2) Three primary kinds of selectors: By tag (type selector): By element id: By element class name (only for HTML): Selectors can be combined with commas: This will match <h1> tags, elements with class link , and element with id top-link h1 { font-family: verdana,sans-serif; } #element_id { color: #ff0000; } .myClass {border: 1px solid red} h1, .link, #top-link {font-weight: bold}

Selectors (3) Pseudo-classes define state :hover , :visited , :active , :lang Pseudo-elements define element "parts" or are used to generate content :first-line , :before , :after a:hover { color: red; } p:first-line { text-transform: uppercase; } .title:before { content: "»"; } .title:after { content: "«"; }

Selectors (4) Match relative to element placement: This will match all <a> tags that are inside of <p> * – universal selector (avoid or use with care!): This will match all descendants of <p> element + selector – used to match “next sibling”: This will match all siblings with class name link that appear immediately after < img > tag p a {text-decoration: underline} p * {color: black} img + .link {float:right}

Selectors (5) > selector – matches direct child nodes: This will match all elements with class error , direct children of <p> tag [ ] – matches tag attributes by regular expression: This will match all <img> tags with alt attribute containing the word logo .class1.class2 (no space) - matches elements with both (all) classes applied at the same time p > .error {font-size: 8px} img[alt~=logo] {border: none}

Values in the CSS Rules Colors are set in RGB format (decimal or hex): Example: #a0a6aa = rgb(160, 166, 170) Predefined color aliases exist: black , blue , etc. Numeric values are specified in: Pixels, ems, e.g. 12px , 1.4em Points, inches, centimeters, millimeters E.g. 10pt , 1in , 1cm , 1mm Percentages, e.g. 50% Percentage of what?... Zero can be used with no unit: border: 0;

Default Browser Styles Browsers have default CSS styles Used when there is no CSS information or any other style information in the document Caution: default styles differ in browsers E.g. margins, paddings and font sizes differ most often and usually developers reset them * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } body, h1, p, ul, li { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

Linking HTML and CSS HTML (content) and CSS (presentation) can be linked in three ways: Inline : the CSS rules in the style attribute No selectors are needed Embedded : in the <head> in a <style> tag External : CSS rules in separate file (best) Usually a file with .css extension Linked via <link rel="stylesheet" href=…> tag or @import directive in embedded CSS block

Linking HTML and CSS (2) Using external files is highly recommended Simplifies the HTML document Improves page load speed as the CSS file is cached

Inline Styles: Example <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Inline Styles</title> </head> <body> <p>Here is some text</p>  <p style="font-size: 20pt">Here is some more text</p> <p style="font-size: 20pt;color: #0000FF" >Even more text</p> </body> </html> inline-styles.html

CSS Cascade (Precedence) There are browser, user and author stylesheets with "normal" and "important" declarations Browser styles (least priority) Normal user styles Normal author styles (external, in head, inline) Important author styles Important user styles (max priority) a { color: red !important ; } http://www.slideshare.net/maxdesign/css-cascade-1658158

CSS Specificity CSS specificity is used to determine the precedence of CSS style declarations with the same origin. Selectors are what matters Simple calculation: #id = 100, .class = 10, :pseudo = 10, [attr] = 10, tag = 1, * = 0 Same number of points? Order matters. See also: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/ http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/advanced_conflict.htm

CSS Rules Precedence Live Demo precedence.html

Embedded Styles Embedded in the HTML in the <style> tag: The <style> tag is placed in the <head> section of the document type attribute specifies the MIME type MIME describes the format of the content Other MIME types include text/html , image/gif , text/javascript … Used for document-specific styles <style type="text/css">

Embedded Styles: Example <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Style Sheets</title> <style type="text/css"> em {background-color:#8000FF; color:white} h1 {font-family:Arial, sans-serif} p {font-size:18pt} .blue {color:blue} </style> <head> embedded-stylesheets.html

Embedded Styles: Example (2) … <body> <h1 class="blue">A Heading</h1> <p>Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text.</p> <h1>Another Heading</h1> <p class="blue">Here is some more text. Here is some more text.</p> <p class="blue">Here is some <em>more</em> text. Here is some more text.</p> </body> </html>

Embedded Styles: Example (3) … <body> <h1 class="blue">A Heading</h1> <p>Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text. Here is some text.</p> <h1>Another Heading</h1> <p class="blue">Here is some more text. Here is some more text.</p> <p class="blue">Here is some <em>more</em> text. Here is some more text.</p> </body> </html>

External CSS Styles External linking Separate pages can all use a shared style sheet Only modify a single file to change the styles across your entire Web site (see http://www.csszengarden.com/ ) link tag (with a rel attribute) Specifies a relationship between current document and another document link elements should be in the <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">

External CSS Styles (2) @import Another way to link external CSS files Example: Ancient browsers do not recognize @import Use @import in an external CSS file to workaround the IE 32 CSS file limit <style type="text/css"> @import url("styles.css"); /* same as */ @import "styles.css"; </style>

External Styles: Example /* CSS Document */ a { text-decoration: none } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: red; background-color: #CCFFCC } li em { color: red; font-weight: bold } ul { margin-left: 2cm } ul ul { text-decoration: underline; margin-left: .5cm } styles.css

External Styles: Example (2) <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Importing style sheets</title> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" /> </head> <body> <h1>Shopping list for <em>Monday</em>:</h1> <li>Milk</li> … external-styles.html

External Styles: Example (3) … <li>Bread <ul> <li>White bread</li> <li>Rye bread</li> <li>Whole wheat bread</li> </ul> </li> <li>Rice</li> <li>Potatoes</li> <li>Pizza <em>with mushrooms</em></li> </ul> <a href="http://food.com" title="grocery store">Go to the Grocery store</a> </body> </html>

External Styles: Example (4) … <li>Bread <ul> <li>White bread</li> <li>Rye bread</li> <li>Whole wheat bread</li> </ul> </li> <li>Rice</li> <li>Potatoes</li> <li>Pizza <em>with mushrooms</em></li> </ul> <a href="http://food.com" title="grocery store">Go to the Grocery store</a> </body> </html>

Text-related CSS Properties color – specifies the color of the text font-size – size of font: xx-small , x-small , small , medium , large , x-large , xx-large , smaller , larger or numeric value font-family – comma separated font names Example: verdana , sans-serif , etc. The browser loads the first one that is available There should always be at least one generic font font-weight can be normal , bold , bolder , lighter or a number in range [ 100 … 900 ]

CSS Rules for Fonts (2) font-style – styles the font Values: normal , italic , oblique text-decoration – decorates the text Values: none , underline , line-trough , overline , blink text-align – defines the alignment of text or other content Values: left , right , center , justify

Shorthand Font Property font Shorthand rule for setting multiple font properties at the same time is equal to writing this: font:italic normal bold 12px/16px verdana font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: verdana;

Fonts Live Demo font-rules.html

Backgrounds background-image URL of image to be used as background, e.g.: background-color Using color and image and the same time background-repeat repeat-x , repeat-y , repeat , no-repeat background-attachment fixed / scroll background-image:url("back.gif");

Backgrounds (2) background-position : specifies vertical and horizontal position of the background image Vertical position: top , center , bottom Horizontal position: left , center , right Both can be specified in percentage or other numerical values Examples: background-position: top left; background-position: -5px 50%;

Background Shorthand Property background : shorthand rule for setting background properties at the same time: is equal to writing: Some browsers will not apply BOTH color and image for background if using shorthand rule background: #FFF0C0 url("back.gif") no-repeat fixed top; background-color: #FFF0C0; background-image: url("back.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: top;

Background-image or <img> ? Background images allow you to save many image tags from the HTML Leads to less code More content-oriented approach All images that are not part of the page content (and are used only for "beautification") should be moved to the CSS

Background Styles Live Demo background-rules.html

Borders border-width : thin , medium , thick or numerical value (e.g. 10px ) border-color : color alias or RGB value border-style : none , hidden , dotted , dashed , solid , double , groove , ridge , inset , outset Each property can be defined separately for left, top, bottom and right border-top-style , border-left-color , …

Border Shorthand Property border : shorthand rule for setting border properties at once: is equal to writing: Specify different borders for the sides via shorthand rules: border-top , border-left , border-right , border-bottom When to avoid border:0 border: 1px solid red border-width:1px; border-color:red; border-style:solid;

Borders Live Demo border-rules.html

CSS Reference A list of all CSS 2.1 properties is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/propidx.html

CSS – Part I Questions? http://frontendcourse.telerik.com

Exercises Create the following page section using HTML and external CSS (no inline styles). Use a table or a definition list (in this case the layout will be different).

Exercises (2) Create the following Web page using external CSS styles. The country flags should be PNG images with text over them.

Exercises (3) Create the following Web page region using HTML with external CSS file. Note that each of the sections should be a hyperlink. Hints: use display:inline-block style for the list items and paddings where needed.

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