CSS Tutorial

This is a beginner’s guide on starting with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). You will be learning what CSS is, why is this important to you as a web developer, we will talk about the applications of CSS, and then you will get to know the career options as a CSS developer.

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What is CSS?

HTML alone is just some information. Information alone can’t stand in this world where people want easier accessibility. So, here comes the CSS technology to make that information attractive and easily accessible.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. As the name suggests, it is a kind of styling that is applied to our plain boring information, HTML.

CSS gives our HMTL all the creative and designing stuff, be it color, alignment, positioning, making the web page responsive (Responsive means making the same website fit different screen sizes without making a completely separate website for each screen size), font styles, animations, and many more. Whatever creativity you can think of can be done with CSS.

Why learn CSS?

Well, let me give you just ONE picture. That itself will make everything clear.

Below is your favorite Google homepage with almost all of the CSS removed. It has got every “information” you need to perform your search operation. It doesn’t look very usable, does it? Neither does it look very organized.

Google Homepage CSS removed

Well, that picture was a good example to show why CSS is so important to learn and what a huge difference CSS can make to your websites :).

It is evident, CSS is not only needed to beautify your webpage but also to make the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) enriched. It becomes a good website only when it has all the information one needs and is, as well, easily accessible.

Applications of CSS

  • Amazing designs & animations: With all other advantages CSS provides you with the best designs you can get for your websites. Starting with basic designs to animations, CSS has got you covered!
  • Reusability: CSS code once written can be applied to multiple HTML files thus making templating easy. We can apply the same class names and ids to the HTML element when we want to make another similar-looking page, thus saving a lot of our time.
  • Responsiveness: Without CSS the responsiveness of the webpages would have only been an imagination! The media queries, the several CSS frameworks like bootstrap, the dynamic units, etc make the webpages responsive and accessible to several devices without making completely separate pages for desktop and mobiles.
  • World wide standards for web design: HTML and CSS have been globally accepted for making wonderful websites. Thus to make your website futureproof, CSS and HTML are a must skill to have.
  • Faster loading of websites: A single CSS property can be applied to multiple elements using the same class name or same id. This saves us from writing the same styles for each element, making the amount of code less and less code means faster loading of the webpage!

How JavaScript makes HTML build-website better

Apart from CSS, JavaScript plays a crucial role in enhancing the functionality and interactivity of websites built with HTML. With JavaScript, developers can create dynamic web pages that update content in real-time without requiring a page refresh.

For example, consider an online store where products are added to the cart dynamically without redirecting the user to a new page. JavaScript can make this possible by handling the cart functionality in the background and updating the UI accordingly.

Similarly, JavaScript can be used to create interactive elements such as dropdown menus, image sliders, and pop-ups that greatly enhance the user experience of a website. By adding JavaScript to HTML and CSS, developers can build more engaging and user-friendly websites.

CSS Examples

Let us take an example: HTML:

<body>
    <div class="div1">
        <h1>Hello World!</h1>
    </div>
    <div class="div2">
        <p>This is my first time experience in CSS!</p>
        <h2>Feeling excited!!</h2>
    </div>
</body>

Let us have a look at what a site without CSS looks like: site without css

That’s it, just some plain text stacked one on top of another.

Now let’s apply some basic CSS to the above HTML:

.div1{
    text-align: center;
    color: darkslategray;
    background-color: #FFE162;
    padding: 10px;
}
.div2{
    background-color: #FF6464;
    color: #EEEEEE;
    font-size: larger;
    padding: 1%;
    color: midnightblue;
}

Now let’s see how it looks after applying some very basic CSS.

site with css

That’s looking much better with some colors and some padding and styling. Well, you can do many more cool things, let’s look at the various CSS properties.

CSS Properties

These are some of the basic CSS properties that are very frequently used:

  • height
  • width
  • margin
  • padding
  • background-color
  • Positioning properties:
    • Absolute
    • Relative
    • Fixed
    • Static
    • Sticky
  • Font properties:
    • font-color
    • font-size
    • font-family
    • font-style

There are multiple more CSS properties that you will learn as you go through more practical experiences and face hurdles while some real development. Cause, in the end, we developers learn the best only while developing! :)

Audience

Web developers, designers, and anyone else interested in building aesthetically pleasing and useful web pages would typically benefit from a CSS tutorial. For making web designs that are both aesthetically pleasing and simple to navigate, CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a crucial tool.

The look and organisation of web pages are defined by CSS, which enables designers to separate the design and organisation from the content. This facilitates website performance improvement and makes updating and maintaining web pages simpler. A CSS tutorial can help you develop your skills and produce more effective web designs regardless of your level of experience as a developer.

Pre-requisite

Before starting a CSS tutorial, it is important to have a good grasp of HTML and web design concepts such as typography, color theory, and layout. Knowledge of programming concepts such as variables, functions, and conditional statements can also be helpful.

Access to a text editor and a web browser is also necessary to write and test CSS code. With these prerequisites in place, learners can effectively start learning and applying CSS to create visually appealing and functional web pages.

Career Opportunity of Learning CSS

Let us give you a hint of the career opportunities one can get after learning CSS.

You can be a UI/UX designer or a front-end developer in any software company. Your main task will be to stylize the websites and work on the front-end of the website enriching the UX and UI.

Well, considering the fact that there’s a lot of competition in the industries, knowing only CSS won’t be enough for becoming a front-end developer. Along with CSS, you need to know HTML and JavaScript as well, the two most in-demand technologies in front-end development.

CSS is one of the 3 basic building blocks for becoming a front-end engineer. And the demand for a truly good front-end engineer is much higher than that back-end engineer in the current industry.

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