Gain insights into CSS to tailor web styles, layout, text, and images. Discover core CSS fundamentals, adding colors, controlling layouts, and exploring essential CSS animation functions to create professional web pages.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a document type and the associated scripting language that describes the presentation of HTML documents. Using the CSS language, you can control the look and feel of web pages by defining layout, text, and image properties to be applied in a wide array of contexts.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to both writing and implementing CSS. Using the document hierarchy model, you’ll learn how to tailor web styles to specific areas. With your hierarchy defined, you’ll dive deep into CSS fundamentals, adding colors, text styles, and backgrounds to your web page. After you’ve defined these elements, you’ll use CSS to define layouts around pictures and text flow and completely control your web page’s look. You’ll wrap up by exploring the essential animation functions of CSS.

By the end of this course, you’ll have functional mastery of Cascading Style Sheets and the CSS scripting language. You’ll be prepared to build professional web pages with your code.

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The Complete Beginner’s Guide to CSS

# Centering
Centering is the act of putting something in the middle of a page. It’s often much easier said than done! This is because there are many different ways to center elements. The way to do it is determined by whether we’re centering horizontally, vertically, or both!

In this lesson, we’ll look at how to do it best in each scenario.


# Horizontal centering

## Inline elements

Inline elements such as text can be centered horizontally with the `text-align` property:

```css
p {
  text-align: center;
}
```

This works for `inline`, `inline-block`, `inline-flex`, `inline-table`, and so on.

## Block elements

Block-level elements can be centered if both their `margin-left` and `margin-right` properties are set to `auto` (assuming the element has a width). It’s often done with the `margin` shorthand:

```css
.element {
  margin: 0 auto;
}
```

However, the modern way to center block-level elements (anything that isn’t text) is to use Flexbox! This horizontally centers any element inside the  `.container` element.



Introduction to CSS

CSS Selectors

CSS Core Concepts

CSS Units

CSS Fundamentals

Backgrounds & Colors

CSS Layout

Animating Your CSS

CSS Architecture

Conclusion

Centering

Centering