Tutorial for CSS Layout Customization
- 1). Open a new document in Notepad.
- 2). Designate the HTML element that will be modified by your style sheet, followed by an open bracket. For example, if you will modify a paragraph (<p>) element in your CSS, enter "p {" into your style sheet.
- 3). Enter the change you wish to enact in the next line, followed by a semicolon. For example, if you wish to change all of the paragraph element contents to boldface, your CSS will look like this:
p {
font: bold;
} - 4). Use a class or ID to specify changes that may be called within your HTML independent of HTML element type. A class can be used multiple times and is designated by a ".", while an ID can be used once and is designated by a "#". For example:
.thrab {
font: bold;
}
This creates a class called "thrab," which can be called from within your HTML document. - 5). Save your style sheet with the ".css" file extension.
- 6). Open your HTML file in Notepad.
- 7). Link to your style sheet within the <head> section of your HTML document. For example, if your style sheet is named styletimeds.css, your link tag should look like
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/links/?u=styletimeds.css" />. - 8). Specify any applicable classes or IDs in their appropriate HTML elements. For example, if you wish to format a particular <div> with the properties of the thrab class, the <div> tag should be revised as <div>. This will apply the corresponding changes to the contents of that particular <div>.
- 9). Save your HTML document.
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