CSS training - Cascading Style Sheets (UK course)

It's Sunday ... and I've been teaching Cascading Style Sheets (or rather "I've been teaching a customer about cascading style sheets") ... one of our delegates for this week's PHP course asked me to spend a few hours going through CSS with him ahead of time.

Here's an example ... using the "KISS" approach (Keep it Simple, Stupid) to avoid the whole thing getting too complex for its own good. I've chosen to post this today to show you just how much better it is to use classes and divs than other more complex specifiers on standard HTML elements - for I have only to add in another surrounding tag and my standard classes would fail, but the classes go on working.

The source code:

<html>
<head>
<style>
table table {
  align: center;
  color: red;
  background: blue;
  }
table table tr td {
  padding-left: 100px;
  color: yellow;
  background: green;
  }
.maths{
  padding-left: 100px;
  color: green;
  background: yellow;
  }
</style>
</head>
<body>
Flubber<br />
<table width=100%><tr><td width=100% align=center>
<table border=1>
<tr><th>Say what</th><th>To whom</th></tr>
<tr><td><div align=center class=maths>Hello</div></td>
<td>World</td></tr></table>
</td></tr></table>
<br />
</body>
</html>

How it looks:

And you can see the full source listing on its own page here and run it for yourself here
(written 2008-06-15 14:56:36)

Associated topics are indexed under

W701 - Web and Intranet - Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
W702 - Web and Intranet - Elements of cascading style sheets
W704 - Web and Intranet - Cascading style sheets - putting it all together

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