CSS for Server-Side Developers Course

Course Summary

Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) describes and controls how HTML elements/tags are displayed on a webpage. The CSS for Server-Side Developers course teaches developers to utilize the key CSS concepts required to support back-end server-side development.

The course begins with an exploration of CSS basics and selectors like pseudo class and the universal selector. The course then transitions into discussing the box model, floating, and positioning. Finally, it wraps up by covering page layouts, bugs, and working with older browsers. The course will be valuable for server-side developers who need to make sense of CSS and use it in their roles.

Purpose

Learn how to utilize the key CSS concepts required to support back-end server-side development.

Audience

Server side developers needing to maintain CSS code.

Role

Software Developer - Technical Manager

Skill Level

Intermediate

Style

Workshops

Duration

1 Day

Related Technologies

Web Development

CSS

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Productivity Objectives:

Distinguish between the major important selectors to use when styling pages with CSS.
Utilize the Box Model and float and position properties to position elements on a page and relative to one another.
Modify stylesheets using hacks and filters to make them compatible with older browsers.
Troubleshoot and fix common CSS bugs.

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What You'll Learn

In the CSS for Server-Side Developers training course, you'll learn:

Cascading Style Sheets Orientation
- The benefits of CSS
- How style sheets work
- Writing CSS style rules
- Attaching styles to (X)HTML documents
- Inheritance, the cascade, specificity, rule order, and the box model
Formatting Text
- The font properties
- Units of measurement
- Text color
- Text line settings – line height, indents and alignment
- Underlines
- Capitalization
- Letter and word spacing
- Descendant (contextual), ID and class selectors
- Specificity basics
CSS Basics
- Inline
- Embedded
- External
- Style sheets for print and other media
More Selectors
- Pseudoclass and pseudoelement selectors
- Universal selector
- Child and adjacent sibling selectors
- Attribute selectors
Box Model – Padding, Borders & Margins
- What is an element box
- Setting box dimensions
- Adding padding around content
- Adding borders
- Adding margins
- Assigning display roles
Floating and Positioning
- Floating elements to the left and right
- Clearing floated elements
- Relative positioning
- Absolute positioning and containing blocks
- Fixed positioning
Page Layouts
- Fixed, liquid and elastic page layouts
- Two and Three column layouts using floats
- Two and Three column layouts using absolute positioning
- Centering a fixed-width page
Hacks and Filters (Working with older browsers)
- Filtering separate stylesheets
- Filtering individual rules and declarations
- Child selector hack
- Attribute selector hack
- Star HTML hack
- Box model hack
Bugs and Bug Fixing
- CSS Validation
- Specificity in depth
- Margin Collapsing
- Firefox extensions
- Using “layout”
- Common bugs & fixes
- Double-margin float
- Three-pixel job bug
- Absolute positioning in a relative container