In this advanced CSS training course you will learn high-end techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets to apply visual formatting to your HTML documents. Designed for intermediate to advanced users of CSS, it provides you with skills to add style to links, lists and nav bars, and conduct advanced formatting. You’ll also learn to apply styles to forms and data tables, and to manage CSS for use in multiple documents.
What you’ll learn in this CSS training course:
- Structuring and managing CSS efficiently
- Applying visual formatting techniques to your HTML pages
- Using background colors and images with their CSS properties
- Styling links, lists, forms and tables effectively
- Incorporating advanced CSS to control page layout
CSS Training Course - Advanced Course Dates
All classes in Boston and Philadelphia start at 9:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. and are led by a live instructor in the same classroom with you. All online classes and NYC classes are also led by a live instructor and run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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CSS Training Course - Advanced
Boston |
Wed, Sep 23 2020 to Thu, Sep 24 2020 |
Boston American Graphics Institute 150 Presidential Way Boston - Woburn, MA 01801 |
$695.00 | |
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CSS Training Course - Advanced
Philadelphia |
Wed, Sep 23 2020 to Thu, Sep 24 2020 |
Philadelphia American Graphics Institute 101 West Elm St. Philadelphia - Conshohocken, PA 19428 |
$695.00 | |
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CSS Training Course - Advanced
Online |
Wed, Sep 23 2020 to Thu, Sep 24 2020 |
Online Live instructor-led class online |
$695.00 | |
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CSS Training Course - Advanced
Boston |
Wed, Nov 18 2020 to Thu, Nov 19 2020 |
Boston American Graphics Institute 150 Presidential Way Boston - Woburn, MA 01801 |
$695.00 | |
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CSS Training Course - Advanced
Philadelphia |
Wed, Nov 18 2020 to Thu, Nov 19 2020 |
Philadelphia American Graphics Institute 101 West Elm St. Philadelphia - Conshohocken, PA 19428 |
$695.00 | |
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CSS Training Course - Advanced
Online |
Wed, Nov 18 2020 to Thu, Nov 19 2020 |
Online Live instructor-led class online |
$695.00 |
CSS Training Course - Advanced Topics covered
The topics covered in this advanced CSS training course are separated into eight modules. These provide course participants with advanced CSS training, providing skills needed to apply advanced formats with CSS and CSS3. The topics covered include:
Lesson 1: Structuring CSS Code
- IDs and class names
- Naming your elements
- IDs or Classes?
- Divs and spans
- Microformats
- Different versions of HTML and CSS
- Document types and browser modes
- Validation
Lesson 2: Managing CSS Styles
- Common selectors
- Pseudo-classes
- The universal selector
- Advanced selectors
- Child and adjacent sibling selectors
- Attribute selectors
- The cascade and specificity
- Specificity
- Using specificity in your style sheets
- Adding a class or an ID to the body tag
- Inheritance
- Planning, and maintaining your styles
- Applying styles to your document
- Removing comments and optimizing
- Style guides
Lesson 3: Visual Formatting using CSS
- Box model review
- IE and the box model
- Margin collapsing
- Positioning review
- The visual formatting model
- Relative positioning
- Absolute positioning
- Fixed positioning
- Floating
- Line boxes and clearing
Lesson 4: Using CSS Backgrounds
- Background image basics
- Rounded-corner boxes
- Fixed-width rounded-corner boxes
- Flexible rounded-corner box
- Multiple background images
- border-radius
- border-image
- Easy CSS drop shadows
- Box-shadow
- Opacity
- CSS opacity
- RGBa
- PNG transparency
Lesson 5: Adding Style to Links
- Simple link styling
- Fun with underlines
- Simple link embellishments
- Fancy link underlines
- Visited-link styles
- Styling link targets
- Highlighting different types of links
- Highlighting downloadable documents
- Creating links that look like buttons
- Simple rollovers
- Rollovers with images
- Pixy-style rollovers
- CSS sprites
- Rollovers with CSS 3
- Pure CSS tooltips
Lesson 6: Using CSS to Style Lists and Nav Bars
- Basic list styling
- Creating a basic vertical nav bar
- Highlighting the current page in a nav
- Creating a simple horizontal nav bar
- Creating a graphical nav bar
- Sliding door tabbed navigation
- CSS image maps
- Flickr-style image maps
- Remote rollovers
- Definition lists
Lesson 7: Styling forms and tables with CSS
- Styling data tables
- Table-specific elements
- Summary and caption
- thead, tbody, and tfoot
- col and colgroups
- Data table markup
- Styling the table
- Adding the visual style
- Simple form layout
- Useful form elements
- Form labels
- Embellishments
- Required fields
- Accessible date input
- Multicolumn check boxes
- Submit buttons
- Form feedback
Lesson 8: Using CSS to create page layout
- Planning your layout
- Setting the foundations
- Centering a design using margins
- Float-based layouts
- Two-column floated layout
- Three-column floated layout
- Fixed-width, liquid, and elastic layout
- Liquid layouts
- Elastic layouts
- Liquid and elastic images
- Faux columns
- Equal-height columns
- CSS 3 columns
- CSS Frameworks vs. CSS Systems
Previous experience writing CSS and HTML is required along with an understanding of all topics covered in the introductory CSS course before enrolling in this advanced CSS training.
You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this class developed by the instructors at AGI. AGI instructors have authored many books on HTML and CSS.
