Web Dev: Page Layout and Complex Style Rules

Overview

In this course, you'll continue developing your web-development skills by formatting element edges and corners, controlling an element's height and width, controlling an element's position and layering, and normalizing and resetting browser CSS defaults. You'll also use advanced selectors, manager user-interface states, make structure more apparent to users, and use CSS pseudo-element selectors. Then, you'll use CSS to create newspaper-style columns, grid layouts, and flexible box layouts. This is the third course in a multi-course Specialization. All of the courses in this Specialization require that you run a XAMPP web server on localhost. The course setup instructions provided in the first course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.

Syllabus

Controlling Edges, Size, and Position

Much of your effort in creating HTML is about placing content inside of elements. But when it comes to matters of layout, CSS gives you a lot to consider regarding what happens around the outside of an element—the edges and spacing that fence your content in. CSS gives you complete control over the spacing inside and outside the edges, the color and lines (if any) used to draw the edges. You also can control the overall size, position, and layering of elements within a web page.

Applying Complex Style Rules

CSS rules provide a powerful way to format many HTML pages from a single source, without having to spend significant time editing every page. They can make your website more consistent, and they can significantly reduce the time needed to format an entire site. Their power comes primarily from selectors, and CSS provides numerous types of selectors that will make your website formatting tasks even more efficient.

Creating Complex Layouts

CSS provides numerous options for laying out elements in complex column-and-row layouts that enable you to present information so it is easy to read, arranged for easy comparison, and adaptable to different screen layouts