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

# Pixels

```css
.element {   
  width: 500px;  
}
```

**Pixels** are the most common measurement unit, which allow us to set a length in pixels. Interestingly, they don’t have anything to do with the literal pixels of your display device. Rather, it’s a standardization of measurement used across the web.As we’ll see, pixels lack flexibility in some scenarios, so there’s often a better option.

# Percentages

**Percentages** let us specify values as a percentage, relative to the same property in the element’s parent. See an example below:

```css
.parent {
  width: 600px;
}

.child {
  width: 50%;  /* 300px */
}
```

For example, if an parent element has a `width` of `600px`, and a child is created with a `width` of `50%`, it will render at `300px`.

# Example

Let's take a look at pixel and percentage units.

Introduction to CSS

CSS Selectors

CSS Core Concepts

CSS Units

CSS Fundamentals

Backgrounds & Colors

CSS Layout

Animating Your CSS

CSS Architecture

Conclusion

Pixels and Percentages

Pixels