CSS Course Overview

Welcome to the CSS Course

This course covers essential CSS concepts to help you create visually appealing and responsive web designs. Each chapter introduces specific CSS features and includes exercises to practice and reinforce your understanding.

Chapter Breakdown

Chapter 1: Basic Styling

In this chapter, you will learn the basics of CSS, including applying inline styles, setting colors, and controlling layout with margin, padding, height, width, and units. We’ll also cover the object-fit property for handling images, background styling, borders, and alignment.

Exercises:

  1. Style an element with inline CSS, setting color, padding, and margins.
  2. Use object-fit to control image scaling within a container.

Chapter 2: Styling Elements

This chapter dives into internal CSS and CSS selectors. You’ll learn to style fonts, links, lists, and add visual effects with shadows, gradients, and comments for better readability.

Exercises:

  1. Create an internal stylesheet with selectors for headings, paragraphs, and links.
  2. Apply shadow effects and a gradient background to an element.

Chapter 3: Layout Basics

Learn how to manage layout with external CSS, positioning elements on the page, controlling the stacking order with z-index, and using the box model. You’ll also design a basic navigation bar to practice these techniques.

Exercises:

  1. Build an external stylesheet for your page.
  2. Use position and z-index to layer elements.
  3. Create a simple navigation bar using CSS.

Chapter 4: Table and Display

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to style tables, create dropdowns, use CSS variables, and control layout with different display values such as inline, block, and flex.

Exercises:

  1. Style a table with borders, padding, and colors.
  2. Create a dropdown menu with CSS.

Chapter 5: Responsive Design

Learn how to make your designs responsive. You’ll explore image filters, responsive layouts using media queries, and transformation effects for visually engaging designs.

Exercises:

  1. Use media queries to make an image grid responsive.
  2. Apply a CSS filter and transformation effect on images.

Chapter 6: Visual Effects

This chapter covers positioning elements, creating tooltips, setting opacity levels, and rotating elements for added visual effects.

Exercises:

  1. Create a tooltip using CSS with position and opacity.
  2. Rotate an element on hover to create an interactive effect.

Chapter 7: Interactive Styling

In this chapter, you’ll learn to style scrollbars, customize list markers, and add transitions to create smooth animations.

Exercises:

  1. Style a scrollbar with custom colors.
  2. Add a transition to animate the appearance of a button on hover.

Chapter 8: Advanced Techniques

Explore advanced CSS techniques like masking, disabling text selection, and changing cursor styles to improve user experience.

Exercises:

  1. Apply a mask to an image to create custom shapes.
  2. Use CSS to disable text selection and change the cursor style.

Chapter 9: Layout Enhancements

This chapter focuses on enhancing layouts using full-screen mode, math functions, column layout properties, and setting gaps for grid and flexbox layouts.

Exercises:

  1. Use the fullscreen property to display content in full-screen mode.
  2. Create a multi-column layout with gaps for a clean, organized layout.

How to Navigate This Course

  1. Start with Chapter 1 and proceed sequentially through the chapters.
  2. Refer to the Figma design links for each exercise to understand the expected structure.
  3. Complete the exercises and validate your work using the GitHub solutions.
  4. Use the provided solutions for learning if you get stuck.

Happy styling with CSS! 🚀