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

# Working with colors

CSS helps make our web pages look more exciting. In HTML, we get a plain white background with black text and blue links. We can use CSS to add some color and make things more interesting!

The CSS `color` property lets us control the color of our text:


# Working with colors

The CSS color property lets us control the color of our text:

```css
p {
  color: lime;
}
```

It can accept any CSS `color` value. These are categorized as named colors, hex colors, RGB and RGBA colors, and HSL and HSLA colors.

Let’s begin by looking at named colors.

## Named colors

```css
p {
  color: red;
}
```

**Named colors** (or **keyword colors**) are CSS keywords that define colors, such red, blue, lime, aqua, light coral, and so on.

CSS originally started with 16 colors. Today, however, there are tons of options. You can find a
 [list of supported colors](https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_names.asp).
Named colors are very convenient. But there are some other options that feature more specific colors.


# Example

Learn how to work with colors and use color keywords.

Introduction to CSS

CSS Selectors

CSS Core Concepts

CSS Units

CSS Fundamentals

Backgrounds & Colors

CSS Layout

Animating Your CSS

CSS Architecture

Conclusion

Colors & Keywords

Working with colors