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  • 1. What is HTML?
  • 2. HTML tags
  • 3. Tag nesting
  • 4. Tag attributes
  • 5. What is CSS?
  • 6. Change the values of CSS properties
  • 7. Let’s change the properties in the CSS rules
  • 8. Create your own CSS rule
  • 9. Apply the styles by class
  • 10. Let’s use two classes
  • 11. Let’s override the styles
  • 12. Let’s finish setting up the styles
  • 13. Summary of “Introduction to HTML and CSS”
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What is CSS?

Muffin wants his website to stand out from the rest not only in terms of content, but also design. That is why he sent us a new task to improve the look of the page. CSS, which stands for “Cascading Style Sheets”, is the language used to style HTML documents. It will help us give Muffin’s page the look he wants.

There are a few pieces of CSS code left that the previous webpage designer didn’t manage to apply to the tags. We will finish his work and immediately show the boss the result. And we won’t even have to edit the style sheet.

But how can we do this? How do we associate styles with the desired tags? The class attribute is one way to do this. For example, we have the following fragment of code in our style file:

.feature-kitten {…}

This rule applies the styles inside the curly braces to all tags with the class feature-kitten. There are currently no such tags in our markup, but we can add this class to any tag and see what happens with it. For example:

<p class="feature-kitten">…</p>

Let’s add other classes to the tags and see what design was specified for them by our colleague.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Instructor Muffin</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <header class="site-header"> <h1>Instructor Muffin</h1> <p>Training for beginner kittens</p> <img src="img/muffin.png" width="359" height="159" alt="Muffin photo"> </header> <section class="features"> <h2>Why choose me?</h2> <p>I myself was once a kitten. But look at me now.</p> <p>I have got the master fully trained.</p> <p>I have been a full-time professional cat for more than 5 years now.</p> </section> <section class="skills"> <h2>What will you learn, you may ask?</h2> <ul class="skills-list"> <li>How to snatch food from the master’s plate</li> <li>How to give furniture a vintage look</li> <li>How to open the door and not go in</li> <li>How to wake the master up at night</li> <li>How to scatter fur around the apartment</li> </ul> </section> <footer class="site-footer"> <p>© Muffin, 2019</p> <p>I don’t have any contact information, but I can find you myself.</p> </footer> </div> </body> </html>
CSS
body { padding: 0; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; background: #ffffff url("img/muffin-background.jpg") no-repeat 50% 0; } h1 { width: 260px; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 36px; } .site-header { margin-bottom: 190px; } .skills-item { margin-bottom: 5px; } .container { width: 480px; margin: 0 auto; } .site-header img { display: block; margin: 0 auto; } .features { margin-bottom: 30px; } .features p { display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 30%; margin: 0 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center top; text-transform: uppercase; } .feature-kitten { padding-top: 60px; background-image: url("img/bottle.svg"); } .feature-cat { padding-top: 60px; background-image: url("img/cat.svg"); } .feature-train { padding-top: 60px; background-image: url("img/whistle.svg"); } .skills-list { padding: 0; } .site-footer { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; color: #999999; }

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    1. Add the feature-kitten class to the first <p> tag in the “Why choose me?” section.
    2. Now add the feature-train class to the second tag.
    3. Finally, add the feature-cat class to the third <p> tag.

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