Overview

This lesson introduces CSS as a way to style elements on the page. The class learns the basic syntax for CSS rule-sets and then explores properties that impact HTML text elements. Finally, everyone applies text styles to their personal websites.

Vocab

• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets; a language used to describe how HTML elements should be styled
• CSS Selector - the part of a CSS rule-set that defines which HTML elements the style should be applied to

New Code

• text-decoration: value
• text-align: value
• font-size: value
• font-family: value
• color: value