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

When working with colors, we should always be mindful of 
#key# accessibility: Computer **accessibility** refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability type or severity of impairment.  #key#
. We can do this by ensuring that the contrast levels between the text color and its background meet a certain standard. This way, people with vision impairments are able to read the content of our web pages.

The contrast levels can be measured as a ratio, which is a comparison of the text’s luminosity against the background color values. We can compare colors with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) by using many free tools that are available online.




Let's take a brief look at how color relates to accessibility.

Introduction to CSS

CSS Selectors

CSS Core Concepts

CSS Units

CSS Fundamentals

Backgrounds & Colors

CSS Layout

Animating Your CSS

CSS Architecture

Conclusion

Regarding Accessibility