Content layout fundamentals

Included in the course

What you'll learn

• Mark up text, lists, tables, and media elements properly
• Create tables
• Access elements using the selectors' extended features
• Adapt pages for people with disabilities
• Use CSS Columns features
• Connect fonts and use them properly

Description

The course focuses on working with content using CSS and HTML. To date, stylesheets provide great opportunities for styling text and blocks on the page: background, color, handling audio, and video. All these elements allow you to create colorful, responsive, and accessible websites for users. A lot of time here we devote to new selectors, pseudo-classes, and pseudo-elements, they allow you to style the content in an extraordinary way

Course program

• 1

  Intro

  Learn about the course topics and goals. Get to know the lesson structure and features

  theory
• 2

  Box model and CSS

  Recall the box model and the properties that affect the element size. Study the margin, padding, and border properties and learn how to manage a box model using the box-sizing property

  theory
• 3

  Text styles

  Get acquainted with the main styles used for text design

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 4

  Working with fonts

  Learn how to connect and select fonts on the page. Learn how to control the size, formatting and spacing within the text. Examine the generalized font property

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 5

  Lists

  Explore the types of lists in HTML and learn how to style them

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 6

  Columns

  Get to know CSS Multi-column Layout and where to use it

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 7

  Units

  Explore the measurement units available in CSS and their relation to each other

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 8

  Media elements

  Learn how to add media elements to a page. Examine ways to add images, video, and audio

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 9

  Tables

  Learn table markup and its semantics

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 10

  Forms

  Learn to create the cornerstone website element: form. Explore the standard elements of data input and form submission

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 11

  Selectors

  Study more complex second- and third-level selectors according to the W3C specification

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 12

  Pseudo-classes

  Learn about styling element events and styling by element's location. Discover how to use pseudo-classes

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 13

  Pseudo-elements

  Get to know pseudo-elements and learn how to generate new content via CSS

  theory

  quiz
• 14

  Overflow

  Explore how the overflow property works and how to hide content inside blocks. Learn about the text-overflow property

  theory

  quiz

  exercise
• 15

  CSS Variables

  Learn about CSS variables, their application and scope

  theory

  quiz
• 16

  Background

  Explore the possibilities for setting and managing the page background using the relevant property. Learn how to position background images and adjust their behavior

  theory

  quiz
• 17

  Gradients

  There are other ways besides a monochrome background or image to style a block. To create a background, artists and designers frequently use gradients — smooth transitions from one color to another. In this lesson, we will learn how to make linear and radial gradients. We'll examine how to make clear color transitions using gradients and other techniques. We'll also learn about the color wheel and how to use it to find gradient color schemes.

  theory
• 18

  Do it yourself

  Some additional tasks to help you consolidate the theory you've learned
• 19

  Additional resources

  Some materials the Hexlet team have picked up. This will give you a more in-depth understanding of the topic

Challenges

We recommend working on these challenges after completing the course. They'll help you obtain more experience in programming and strengthen your new skills.