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Intro to CSS

Cascading Style Sheets tell the browser how to display HTML elements. CSS is complex but extremely powerful.

In-line Styling

<tag style=”attribute: value;”>content</tag>

Exercise: add a color and font-family to the heading on your index.html page. Use a different color in a span surrounding part of the heading

Embedded

<head>
  <style type="text/css">
    selector(s) {
      property: value; /* many values are measured in px (short for pixels) */
    }
  </style>
</head>

Selectors

  • elements/tags html body a

Exercise: add a style tag in the head of your index.html then move your inline-styling into it. Next, use a selector to style all the nav items at once - maybe changed the font-size. Then style the html to have a background-color

  • classes (for items with shared characteristics)
    • declare: <tag class="photo menu-item event">content</tag>
    • select: .photo .menu-item .event

Exercise: in your products.html page, add a class to each of your list items, like class="product". Bonus if you use multiple cursors to achieve this. Next, give each list item a border property. Also get rid of the default black bullets if possible!

  • ids (for unique items)

    • declare: <tag id="profile_picture">content</tag>
    • select: #profile_picture

  • pseudo selectors (styling that is assigned to a state of a page element or specific subset of elements)

a:hover { color: red;} => Links will turn red when a mouse hovers over them

Exercise: add a hover pseudo-selector to all anchor (link) tags, make it whatever color you want

p:first-child { background-color: gray;} => The first paragraph element on a page will have a gray background color

div:nth-child(3) { text-align: center; } => Text in the 3rd div on the page will be centered

Selectors based off of relationships

  • A.class All A elements that have a certain class
  • A E {}: Any E element that is a descendant of an A element (that is: a child, or a child of a child, etc.)
  • A > E {}: Any E element that is a child of an A element
  • E:first-child {}: Any E element that is the first child of its parent
  • B + E {}: Any E element that is the next sibling of a B element (that is: the next child of the same parent)

Exercise: with a partner, complete up to level 16 at the CSS Diner: https://flukeout.github.io/

Style Sheet

<head>
  <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”styles/main.css”>
</head>

let's create a stylesheet:

$ mkdir styles

$ touch styles/main.css

Exercise: link your stylesheet to your HTML pages and transfer all your styling into it. Now add a univeral style to your html like a background-color. Why might the styles not have been applied to your sub-pages?

Responsive Styling:

Responsive styling enables you to customize how a page is displayed at different browser sizes. With media queries, you can set custom CSS for any browser with you’d like to target.

Responsive media queries

@media (max-width: 767px) and (min-width: 480px) {
  h2 {
   font-size: 12px;
  }
  nav {
    display: none; }
  }

Flexbox

Introduced by CSS3, Flexible Box, or flexbox, is a layout mode providing for the arrangement of elements on a page such that the elements behave predictably when the page layout must accommodate different screen sizes and different display devices.

My favorite guide to flexbox

Exercise: complete up to level 16 in Flexbox Froggy (easier) or Level 12 in Flexbox Tower Defence (harder).

Adding Flexbox to our website

Let's create a blog file: $ touch pages/blog.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>

    <title>Blog</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      Please spend a moment browsing my site. It'll be great!
    </header>
    <div>
      <article>
        Welcome to my blog! I'll be writing a lot about exciting new technologies here.
      </article>
      <nav>
        <a href="../index.html">Home</a>
        <a href="about.html">About</a>
        <a href="products.html">Products</a>
        <a href="contact_us.html">Contact Us</a>
        <a href="blog.html">Blog</a>
      </nav>
      <aside>Donate if you can. It'll keepme (and my blog) alive!</aside>
    </div>
    <footer>Donations will primarily be spent on Soylent.</footer>
  </body>
</html>

Let's add some styling into our CSS file:

#flex_main {
  min-height: 800px;
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: row;
}

#flex_main > .flex-article {
  margin: 4px;
  padding: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #cccc33;
  border-radius: 7pt;
  background: #dddd88;
  flex: 3 1 60%;
  order: 2;
}

#flex_main > .flex-nav {
  margin: 4px;
  padding: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #8888bb;
  border-radius: 7pt;
  background: #ccccff;
  flex: 1 6 20%;
  order: 1;
}

#flex_main > .flex-aside {
  margin: 4px;
  padding: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #8888bb;
  border-radius: 7pt;
  background: #ccccff;
  flex: 1 6 20%;
  order: 3;
}

.flex-header, .flex-footer {
  display: block;
  margin: 4px;
  padding: 5px;
  min-height: 100px;
  border: 1px solid #eebb55;
  border-radius: 7pt;
  background: #ffeebb;
}

Exercise: update your HTML to include the appropriate classes/ids so that our new CSS gets applied

Before we add some media queries, try collapsing your browser so it's too narrow for the layout. How does it look?

@media all and (max-width: 640px) {
  #flex_main, #flex_page {
    flex-direction: column;
  }

  #flex_main > .flex-article, #flex_main > .flex-nav, #flex_main > .flex-aside {
  /* Return them to document order */
    order: 0;
  }

  #flex_main > .flexnav, #flex_main > .flexaside, .flexheader, .flexfooter {
    min-height: 50px;
    max-height: 50px;
  }
}

Cross-Browser Compatability

Making sure a site displays properly across different platforms can be a major headache for developers. To mitigate this, we test on multiple devices/browsers and use CSS browser prefixes to add support for CSS features before they are natively supported by the browser.

Prefixes:
Android: -webkit-
Chrome: -webkit-
Firefox: -moz-
Internet Explorer: -ms-
iOS: -webkit-

This css auto-prefixer tool can make your life easier.

Exercise: run your css through the auto-prefixer, save the new CSS and then view in another browser

Head Meta-tags:

Add this to the head of your file to let your mobile browser know your site is optimized for mobile:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

Exercise: with a partner, use what you've learned to recreate this site. Use only the HTML skeleton and create your own main.css file:

Resources:

Other Resource for Practice