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Table of Contents
About the Tutorial .....................................................................................................................................

Audience .................................................................................................................................................. i

Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................ i

Copyright & Disclaimer............................................................................................................................. i

Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... ii

1. CSS ─ OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................. 1

What is CSS?............................................................................................................................................ 1

Advantages of CSS ................................................................................................................................... 1

Who Creates and Maintains CSS? ............................................................................................................ 1

CSS Versions ............................................................................................................................................ 2

2. CSS ─ SYNTAX ...................................................................................................................... 3

The Type Selectors .................................................................................................................................. 3

The Universal Selectors ........................................................................................................................... 3

The Descendant Selectors ....................................................................................................................... 4

The Class Selectors .................................................................................................................................. 4

The ID Selectors ...................................................................................................................................... 4

The Child Selectors .................................................................................................................................. 5

The Attribute Selectors ........................................................................................................................... 5

Multiple Style Rules ................................................................................................................................ 6

Grouping Selectors .................................................................................................................................. 6

3. CSS ─ INCLUSION ................................................................................................................. 8

Embedded CSS - The <style> Element ...................................................................................................... 8

Attributes ................................................................................................................................................ 8

Inline CSS - The style Attribute ................................................................................................................ 9

Attributes ................................................................................................................................................ 9
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 External CSS - The <link> Element ........................................................................................................... 9

Attributes .............................................................................................................................................. 10

Imported CSS - @import Rule ................................................................................................................ 11

CSS Rules Overriding ............................................................................................................................. 11

Handling Old Browsers .......................................................................................................................... 12

CSS Comments ...................................................................................................................................... 12

4. CSS ─ MEASUREMENT UNITS ............................................................................................. 13

5. CSS ─ COLORS .................................................................................................................... 14

CSS Colors - Hex Codes .......................................................................................................................... 14

CSS Colors - Short Hex Codes ................................................................................................................. 15

CSS Colors - RGB Values......................................................................................................................... 16

Building Color Codes ............................................................................................................................. 16

Browser Safe Colors .............................................................................................................................. 16

6. CSS ─ BACKGROUND .......................................................................................................... 20

7. CSS ─ FONTS ...................................................................................................................... 23

Set the Font Family ............................................................................................................................... 23

Set the Font Style .................................................................................................................................. 23

Set the Font Variant .............................................................................................................................. 24

Set the Font Weight .............................................................................................................................. 24

Set the Font Size .................................................................................................................................... 24

Set the Font Size Adjust ......................................................................................................................... 25

Set the Font Stretch .............................................................................................................................. 25

Shorthand Property............................................................................................................................... 26

8. CSS ─ TEXT ......................................................................................................................... 27

Set the Text Color .................................................................................................................................. 27

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 Set the Text Direction............................................................................................................................ 28

Set the Space between Characters ........................................................................................................ 28

Set the Space between Words............................................................................................................... 28

Set the Text Indent ................................................................................................................................ 29

Set the Text Alignment .......................................................................................................................... 29

Decorating the Text ............................................................................................................................... 30

Set the Text Cases ................................................................................................................................. 30

Set the White Space between Text ........................................................................................................ 31

Set the Text Shadow ............................................................................................................................. 31

9. CSS ─ IMAGES .................................................................................................................... 32

The Image Border Property ................................................................................................................... 32

The Image Height Property ................................................................................................................... 32

The Image Width Property .................................................................................................................... 33

The -moz-opacity Property .................................................................................................................... 34

10. CSS ─ LINKS ........................................................................................................................ 36

Set the Color of Links............................................................................................................................. 36

Set the Color of Visited Links ................................................................................................................. 37

Change the Color of Links when Mouse is Over ..................................................................................... 37

Change the Color of Active Links ........................................................................................................... 37

11. CSS ─ TABLES ..................................................................................................................... 38

The order-collapse Property .................................................................................................................. 38

The border-spacing Property ................................................................................................................. 39

The caption-side Property ..................................................................................................................... 41

The empty-cells Property ...................................................................................................................... 43

The table-layout Property ..................................................................................................................... 44

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12. CSS ─ BORDERS.................................................................................................................. 46

The border-color Property..................................................................................................................... 46

The border-style Property ..................................................................................................................... 47

The border-width Property ................................................................................................................... 49

Border Properties Using Shorthand ....................................................................................................... 50

13. CSS ─ MARGINS ................................................................................................................. 52

The Margin Property ............................................................................................................................. 52

The margin-bottom Property ................................................................................................................ 53

The margin-top Property ....................................................................................................................... 54

The margin-left Property ....................................................................................................................... 54

The margin-right Property ..................................................................................................................... 55

14. CSS ─ LISTS......................................................................................................................... 56

The list-style-type Property ................................................................................................................... 56

The list-style-position Property ............................................................................................................. 59

The list-style-image Property ................................................................................................................ 60

The list-style Property ........................................................................................................................... 61

The marker-offset Property ................................................................................................................... 62

15. CSS ─ PADDINGS ................................................................................................................ 63

The padding-bottom Property ............................................................................................................... 63

The padding-top Property ..................................................................................................................... 64

The padding-left Property ..................................................................................................................... 64

The padding-right Property ................................................................................................................... 65

The Padding Property ............................................................................................................................ 65

16. CSS ─ CURSORS .................................................................................................................. 67

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17. CSS ─ OUTLINES ................................................................................................................. 70

The outline-width Property ................................................................................................................... 70

The outline-style Property..................................................................................................................... 71

The outline-color Property .................................................................................................................... 72

The Outline Property ............................................................................................................................. 73

18. CSS ─ DIMENSION .............................................................................................................. 74

The Height and Width Properties .......................................................................................................... 74

The line-height Property ....................................................................................................................... 75

The max-height Property....................................................................................................................... 75

The min-height Property ....................................................................................................................... 76

The max-width Property ....................................................................................................................... 77

The min-width Property ........................................................................................................................ 77

19. CSS ─ SCROLLBARS............................................................................................................. 79

20. CSS ─ VISIBILITY ................................................................................................................. 81

21. CSS ─ POSITIONING ........................................................................................................... 82

Relative Positioning .............................................................................................................................. 82

Absolute Positioning ............................................................................................................................. 82

Fixed Positioning ................................................................................................................................... 83

22. CSS ─ LAYERS ..................................................................................................................... 84

23. CSS ─ PSEUDO CLASSES ..................................................................................................... 86

The :link pseudo-class ........................................................................................................................... 87

The :visited pseudo-class ....................................................................................................................... 87

The :hover pseudo-class ........................................................................................................................ 87

The :active pseudo-class ........................................................................................................................ 88

The :focus pseudo-class ......................................................................................................................... 88

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 The :first-child pseudo-class .................................................................................................................. 88

The :lang pseudo-class .......................................................................................................................... 89

24. CSS ─ PSEUDO ELEMENTS.................................................................................................. 91

The :first-line pseudo-element .............................................................................................................. 91

The :first-letter pseudo-element ........................................................................................................... 92

The :before pseudo-element ................................................................................................................. 92

The :after pseudo-element .................................................................................................................... 93

25. CSS ─ @ RULES .................................................................................................................. 95

The @import Rule ................................................................................................................................. 95

The @charset Rule ................................................................................................................................ 95

The @font-face Rule ............................................................................................................................. 96

The !important Rule .............................................................................................................................. 97

26. CSS ─ FILTERS..................................................................................................................... 98

Alpha Channel ....................................................................................................................................... 98

Motion Blur ........................................................................................................................................... 99

Chroma Filter ...................................................................................................................................... 101

Drop Shadow Effect............................................................................................................................. 102

Flip Effect ............................................................................................................................................ 103

Glow Effect.......................................................................................................................................... 104

Grayscale Effect................................................................................................................................... 105

Invert Effect ........................................................................................................................................ 106

Mask Effect ......................................................................................................................................... 107

Shadow Filter ...................................................................................................................................... 108

Wave Effect ......................................................................................................................................... 110

X-Ray Effect ......................................................................................................................................... 111

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27. CSS ─ MEDIA TYPES ......................................................................................................... 112

The @media rule ................................................................................................................................. 112

The Document Language ..................................................................................................................... 112

Recognized Media Types ..................................................................................................................... 113

28. CSS ─ PAGED MEDIA ........................................................................................................ 115

Defining Pages: The @page Rule ......................................................................................................... 115

Setting Page Size ................................................................................................................................. 116

Left, Right, and First Pages .................................................................................................................. 117

Controlling Pagination ......................................................................................................................... 118

Controlling Widows and Orphans ........................................................................................................ 119

29. CSS ─ AURAL MEDIA ........................................................................................................ 120

The azimuth Property .......................................................................................................................... 121

The elevation Property ........................................................................................................................ 122

The cue-after Property ........................................................................................................................ 123

The cue-before Property ..................................................................................................................... 123

The cue Property ................................................................................................................................. 124

The pause-after Property .................................................................................................................... 124

The pause-before Property ................................................................................................................. 124

The pause Property ............................................................................................................................. 124

The pitch Property .............................................................................................................................. 125

The pitch-range Property .................................................................................................................... 125

The play-during Property .................................................................................................................... 125

The richness Property.......................................................................................................................... 126

The speak Property ............................................................................................................................. 126

The speak-numeral Property ............................................................................................................... 127

The speak-punctuation Property ......................................................................................................... 127

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 The speech-rate Property .................................................................................................................... 127

The stress Property ............................................................................................................................. 127

The voice-family Property ................................................................................................................... 128

The volume Property........................................................................................................................... 128

30. CSS ─ PRINTING ............................................................................................................... 129

31. CSS ─ LAYOUTS ................................................................................................................ 130

Sample Column Layout ........................................................................................................................ 131

32. CSS ─ VALIDATIONS ......................................................................................................... 134

Why Validate Your HTML Code? .......................................................................................................... 134

33. CSS2 REFERENCE GUIDE .................................................................................................. 135

Pseudo-classes & Pseudo-elements .................................................................................................... 142

34. COLOR REFERENCES ........................................................................................................ 143

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1. CSS ─ Overview

What is CSS?
Cascading Style Sheets, fondly referred to as CSS, is a simple design language intended
to simplify the process of making web pages presentable.

CSS handles the look and feel part of a web page. Using CSS, you can control the color
of the text, the style of fonts, the spacing between paragraphs, how columns are sized
and laid out, what background images or colors are used, as well as a variety of other
effects.

CSS is easy to learn and understand but it provides a powerful control over the
presentation of an HTML document. Most commonly, CSS is combined with the markup
languages HTML or XHTML.

Advantages of CSS
 CSS saves time - You can write CSS once and then reuse the same sheet in
multiple HTML pages. You can define a style for each HTML element and apply it
to as many web pages as you want.

 Pages load faster - If you are using CSS, you do not need to write HTML tag
attributes every time. Just write one CSS rule of a tag and apply it to all the
occurrences of that tag. So, less code means faster download times.

 Easy maintenance - To make a global change, simply change the style, and all
the elements in all the web pages will be updated automatically.

 Superior styles to HTML - CSS has a much wider array of attributes than HTML,
so you can give a far better look to your HTML page in comparison to HTML
attributes.

 Multiple Device Compatibility - Style sheets allow content to be optimized for

more than one type of device. By using the same HTML document, different
versions of a website can be presented for handheld devices such as PDAs and
cellphones or for printing.

 Global web standards – Now HTML attributes are being deprecated and it is
being recommended to use CSS. So it’s a good idea to start using CSS in all the
HTML pages to make them compatible with future browsers.

Who Creates and Maintains CSS?

CSS is created and maintained through a group of people within the W3C called the CSS
Working Group. The CSS Working Group creates documents called specifications.
When a specification has been discussed and officially ratified by the W3C members, it
becomes a recommendation.

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These ratified specifications are called recommendations because the W3C has no control
over the actual implementation of the language. Independent companies and
organizations create that software.

NOTE: The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C is a group that makes
recommendations about how the Internet works and how it should evolve.

CSS Versions
Cascading Style Sheets level 1 (CSS1) came out of W3C as a recommendation in
December 1996. This version describes the CSS language as well as a simple visual
formatting model for all the HTML tags.

CSS2 became a W3C recommendation in May 1998 and builds on CSS1. This version
adds support for media-specific style sheets e.g. printers and aural devices,
downloadable fonts, element positioning and tables.

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2. CSS ─ Syntax

A CSS comprises of style rules that are interpreted by the browser and then applied to
the corresponding elements in your document. A style rule is made of three parts:

 Selector: A selector is an HTML tag at which a style will be applied. This could be
any tag like <h1> or <table> etc.

 Property: A property is a type of attribute of HTML tag. Put simply, all the HTML
attributes are converted into CSS properties. They could be color, border, etc.

 Value: Values are assigned to properties. For example, color property can have
the value either red or #F1F1F1 etc.

You can put CSS Style Rule Syntax as follows:

selector { property: value }

Example: You can define a table border as follows:

table{ border :1px solid #C00; }

Here table is a selector and border is a property and the given value 1px solid #C00 is
the value of that property.

You can define selectors in various simple ways based on your comfort. Let me put these
selectors one by one.

The Type Selectors

This is the same selector we have seen above. Again, one more example to give a color
to all level 1 headings:

h1 {
color: #36CFFF;
}

The Universal Selectors

Rather than selecting elements of a specific type, the universal selector quite simply
matches the name of any element type:

* {
color: #000000;
}

This rule renders the content of every element in our document in black.
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The Descendant Selectors

Suppose you want to apply a style rule to a particular element only when it lies inside a
particular element. As given in the following example, the style rule will apply to <em>
element only when it lies inside the <ul> tag.

ul em {
color: #000000;
}

The Class Selectors

You can define style rules based on the class attribute of the elements. All the elements
having that class will be formatted according to the defined rule.

.black {
color: #000000;
}

This rule renders the content in black for every element with class attribute set
to black in our document. You can make it a bit more particular. For example:

h1.black {
color: #000000;
}

This rule renders the content in black for only <h1> elements with class attribute set to
black.

You can apply more than one class selectors to a given element. Consider the following
example:

<p class="center bold">

This para will be styled by the classes center and bold.
</p>

The ID Selectors
You can define style rules based on the id attribute of the elements. All the elements
having that id will be formatted according to the defined rule.

#black {
color: #000000;
}

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This rule renders the content in black for every element with id attribute set to black in
our document. You can make it a bit more particular. For example:

h1#black {

color: #000000;
}

This rule renders the content in black for only <h1> elements with id attribute set
to black.

The true power of id selectors is when they are used as the foundation for descendant
selectors. For example:

#black h2 {
color: #000000;
}

In this example, all level 2 headings will be displayed in black color when those headings
will lie within tags having id attribute set to black.

The Child Selectors

You have seen the descendant selectors. There is one more type of selector, which is
very similar to descendants but have different functionality. Consider the following
example:

body > p {
color: #000000;
}

This rule will render all the paragraphs in black if they are a direct child of the <body>
element. Other paragraphs put inside other elements like <div> or <td> would not have
any effect of this rule.

The Attribute Selectors

You can also apply styles to HTML elements with particular attributes. The style rule
below will match all the input elements having a type attribute with a value of text:

input[type="text"]{
color: #000000;
}

The advantage to this method is that the <input type="submit" /> element is
unaffected, and the color applied only to the desired text fields.

There are following rules applied to attribute selector.

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 p[lang] - Selects all paragraph elements with a lang attribute.

 p[lang="fr"] - Selects all paragraph elements whose lang attribute has a value
of exactly "fr".

 p[lang~="fr"] - Selects all paragraph elements whose lang attribute contains

the word "fr".

 p[lang|="en"] - Selects all paragraph elements whose lang attribute contains

values that are exactly "en", or begin with "en-".

Multiple Style Rules

You may need to define multiple style rules for a single element. You can define these
rules to combine multiple properties and corresponding values into a single block as
defined in the following example:

h1 {
color: #36C;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: .4em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
text-transform: lowercase;
}

Here all the property and value pairs are separated by a semicolon (;). You can keep
them in a single line or multiple lines. For better readability, we keep them in separate
lines.

For a while, don't bother about the properties mentioned in the above block. These
properties will be explained in the coming chapters and you can find the complete detail
about properties in CSS References.

Grouping Selectors
You can apply a style to many selectors if you like. Just separate the selectors with a
comma, as given in the following example:

h1, h2, h3 {
color: #36C;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: .4em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
text-transform: lowercase;
}

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This define style rule will be applicable to h1, h2 and h3 element as well. The order of
the list is irrelevant. All the elements in the selector will have the corresponding
declarations applied to them.

You can combine the various class selectors together as shown below:

#content, #footer, #supplement {

position: absolute;
left: 510px;
width: 200px;
}

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3. CSS ─ Inclusion

There are four ways to associate styles with your HTML document. Most commonly used
methods are inline CSS and External CSS.

Embedded CSS - The <style> Element

You can put your CSS rules into an HTML document using the <style> element. This tag
is placed inside the <head>...</head> tags. Rules defined using this syntax will be
applied to all the elements available in the document. Here is the generic syntax:

<head>
<style type="text/css" media="...">
Style Rules
............
</style>
</head>

Attributes
Attributes associated with <style> elements are:

Attribute Value Description

type text/css Specifies the style sheet language as a content-type

(MIME type). This is a required attribute.

media screen Specifies the device, the document will be displayed

tty on. Default value is all. This is an optional attribute.
tv
projection
handheld
print
braille
aural
all

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Example
Following is an example of embed CSS based on the above syntax:

<head>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
h1{
color: #36C;
}
</style>
</head>

Inline CSS - The style Attribute

You can use style attribute of any HTML element to define style rules. These rules will be
applied to that element only. Here is the generic syntax:

<element style="...style rules....">

Attributes
Attribute Value Description

style style The value of style attribute is a combination of style

rules declarations separated by semicolon (;).

Example
Following is the example of inline CSS based on the above syntax:

<h1 style ="color:#36C;"> This is inline CSS </h1>

It will produce the following result:

This is inline CSS

External CSS - The <link> Element

The <link> element can be used to include an external stylesheet file in your HTML
document.

An external style sheet is a separate text file with .css extension. You define all the Style
rules within this text file and then you can include this file in any HTML document using
<link> element.

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Here is the generic syntax of including external CSS file:

<head>
<link type="text/css" href="..." media="..." />
</head>

Attributes
Attributes associated with <style> elements are:

Attribute Value Description

type text/css Specifies the style sheet language as a content-type (MIME

type). This attribute is required.

href URL Specifies the style sheet file having Style rules. This attribute
is a required.

media screen Specifies the device the document will be displayed on.
tty Default value is all. This is an optional attribute.
tv
projection
handheld
print
braille
aural
all

Example
Consider a simple style sheet file with a name mystyle.css having the following rules:

h1, h2, h3 {
color: #36C;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: .4em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
text-transform: lowercase;
}

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Now you can include this file mystyle.css in any HTML document as follows:

<head>
<link type="text/css" href="mystyle.css" media="all" />
</head>

Imported CSS - @import Rule

@import is used to import an external stylesheet in a manner similar to the <link>
element. Here is the generic syntax of @import rule.

<head>
<@import "URL";
</head>

Here URL is the URL of the style sheet file having style rules. You can use another syntax
as well:

<head>
<@import url("URL");
</head>

Example
Following is the example showing you how to import a style sheet file into an HTML
document:

<head>
@import "mystyle.css";
</head>

CSS Rules Overriding

We have discussed four ways to include style sheet rules in an HTML document. Here is
the rule to override any Style Sheet Rule.

 Any inline style sheet takes the highest priority. So, it will override any rule
defined in <style>...</style> tags or the rules defined in any external style sheet
file.

 Any rule defined in <style>...</style> tags will override the rules defined in any
external style sheet file.

 Any rule defined in the external style sheet file takes the lowest priority, and the
rules defined in this file will be applied only when the above two rules are not
applicable.

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Handling Old Browsers

There are still many old browsers who do not support CSS. So, we should take care
while writing our Embedded CSS in an HTML document. The following snippet shows how
to use comment tags to hide CSS from older browsers:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body, td {
color: blue;
}
-->
</style>

CSS Comments
Many times, you may need to put additional comments in your style sheet blocks. So, it
is very easy to comment any part in the style sheet. You can simply put your comments
inside /*.....this is a comment in style sheet.....*/.

You can use /* ....*/ to comment multi-line blocks in similar way you do in C and C++
programming languages.

Example

/* This is an external style sheet file */

h1, h2, h3 {
color: #36C;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: .4em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
text-transform: lowercase;
}
/* end of style rules. */

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4. CSS ─ Measurement Units

Before we start the actual exercise, we would like to give a brief idea about the CSS
Measurement Units. CSS supports a number of measurements including absolute units
such as inches, centimeters, points, and so on, as well as relative measures such as
percentages and em units. You need these values while specifying various
measurements in your Style rules e.g. border="1px solid red".

We have listed out all the CSS Measurement Units along with proper Examples:

Unit Description Example

Defines a measurement as a percentage

p {font-size: 16pt; line-height:
% relative to another value, typically an
125%;}
enclosing element.

cm Defines a measurement in centimeters. div {margin-bottom: 2cm;}

A relative measurement for the height of

a font in em spaces. Because an em unit
is equivalent to the size of a given font,
em p {letter-spacing: 7em;}
if you assign a font to 12pt, each "em"
unit would be 12pt; thus, 2em would be
24pt.

This value defines a measurement

relative to a font's x-height. The x- p {font-size: 24pt; line-height:
ex
height is determined by the height of the 3ex;}
font's lowercase letter x.

in Defines a measurement in inches. p {word-spacing: .15in;}

mm Defines a measurement in millimeters. p {word-spacing: 15mm;}

Defines a measurement in picas. A pica

pc is equivalent to 12 points; thus, there p {font-size: 20pc;}
are 6 picas per inch.

Defines a measurement in points. A

pt body {font-size: 18pt;}
point is defined as 1/72nd of an inch.

px Defines a measurement in screen pixels. p {padding: 25px;}

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5. CSS ─ Colors

CSS uses color values to specify a color. Typically, these are used to set a color either
for the foreground of an element (i.e., its text) or for the background of the element.
They can also be used to affect the color of borders and other decorative effects.

You can specify your color values in various formats. Following table lists all the possible
formats:

Format Syntax Example

Hex Code #RRGGBB p{color:#FF0000;}

Short Hex Code #RGB p{color:#6A7;}

RGB % rgb(rrr%,ggg%,bbb%) p{color:rgb(50%,50%,50%);}

RGB Absolute rgb(rrr,ggg,bbb) p{color:rgb(0,0,255);}

keyword aqua, black, etc. p{color:teal;}

These formats are explained in more detail in the following sections:

CSS Colors - Hex Codes

A hexadecimal is a 6 digit representation of a color. The first two digits (RR) represent a
red value, the next two are a green value (GG), and the last are the blue value (BB).

A hexadecimal value can be taken from any graphics software like Adobe Photoshop,
Jasc Paintshop Pro, or even using Advanced Paint Brush.

Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign ‘#’. Following are the
examples to use Hexadecimal notation.

Color Color HEX

#000000

#FF0000

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#00FF00

#0000FF

#FFFF00

#00FFFF

#FF00FF

#C0C0C0

#FFFFFF

CSS Colors - Short Hex Codes

This is a shorter form of the six-digit notation. In this format, each digit is replicated to
arrive at an equivalent six-digit value. For example: #6A7 becomes #66AA77.

A hexadecimal value can be taken from any graphics software like Adobe Photoshop,
Jasc Paintshop Pro or even using Advanced Paint Brush.

Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign #. Following are the
examples to use the Hexadecimal notation.

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CSS Colors - RGB Values

This color value is specified using the rgb( ) property. This property takes three values,
one each for red, green, and blue. The value can be an integer between 0 and 255 or a
percentage.

NOTE: All the browsers does not support rgb() property of color, so it is recommended
not to use it.

Following is the example to show few colors using RGB values.

Color Color RGB

rgb(0,0,0)

rgb(255,0,0)

rgb(0,255,0)

rgb(0,0,255)

rgb(255,255,0)

rgb(0,255,255)

rgb(255,0,255)

rgb(192,192,192)

rgb(255,255,255)

Building Color Codes

You can build millions of color codes using our Color Code Builder. Check our HTML
Color Code Builder. To use this tool, you would need a Java Enabled Browser.

Browser Safe Colors

Here is the list of 216 colors, which are supposed to be most safe and computer
independent colors. These colors vary from hexa code 000000 to FFFFFF. These colors

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are safe to use because they ensure that all computers would display the colors correctly
when running a 256 color palette:

000000 000033 000066 000099 0000CC 0000FF

003300 003333 003366 003399 0033CC 0033FF

006600 006633 006666 006699 0066CC 0066FF

009900 009933 009966 009999 0099CC 0099FF

00CC00 00CC33 00CC66 00CC99 00CCCC 00CCFF

00FF00 00FF33 00FF66 00FF99 00FFCC 00FFFF

330000 330033 330066 330099 3300CC 3300FF

333300 333333 333366 333399 3333CC 3333FF

336600 336633 336666 336699 3366CC 3366FF

339900 339933 339966 339999 3399CC 3399FF

33CC00 33CC33 33CC66 33CC99 33CCCC 33CCFF

33FF00 33FF33 33FF66 33FF99 33FFCC 33FFFF

660000 660033 660066 660099 6600CC 6600FF

663300 663333 663366 663399 6633CC 6633FF

666600 666633 666666 666699 6666CC 6666FF

669900 669933 669966 669999 6699CC 6699FF

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66CC00 66CC33 66CC66 66CC99 66CCCC 66CCFF

66FF00 66FF33 66FF66 66FF99 66FFCC 66FFFF

990000 990033 990066 990099 9900CC 9900FF

993300 993333 993366 993399 9933CC 9933FF

996600 996633 996666 996699 9966CC 9966FF

999900 999933 999966 999999 9999CC 9999FF

99CC00 99CC33 99CC66 99CC99 99CCCC 99CCFF

99FF00 99FF33 99FF66 99FF99 99FFCC 99FFFF

CC0000 CC0033 CC0066 CC0099 CC00CC CC00FF

CC3300 CC3333 CC3366 CC3399 CC33CC CC33FF

CC6600 CC6633 CC6666 CC6699 CC66CC CC66FF

CC9900 CC9933 CC9966 CC9999 CC99CC CC99FF

CCCC00 CCCC33 CCCC66 CCCC99 CCCCCC CCCCFF

CCFF00 CCFF33 CCFF66 CCFF99 CCFFCC CCFFFF

FF0000 FF0033 FF0066 FF0099 FF00CC FF00FF

FF3300 FF3333 FF3366 FF3399 FF33CC FF33FF

FF6600 FF6633 FF6666 FF6699 FF66CC FF66FF

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FF9900 FF9933 FF9966 FF9999 FF99CC FF99FF

FFCC00 FFCC33 FFCC66 FFCC99 FFCCCC FFCCFF

FFFF00 FFFF33 FFFF66 FFFF99 FFFFCC FFFFFF

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6. CSS ─ Background

This chapter teaches you how to set backgrounds of various HTML elements. You can set
the following background properties of an element:

 The background-color property is used to set the background color of an

element.

 The background-image property is used to set the background image of an

element.

 The background-repeat property is used to control the repetition of an image in

the background.

 The background-position property is used to control the position of an image in

the background.

 The background-attachment property is used to control the scrolling of an

image in the background.

 The background property is used as a shorthand to specify a number of other

background properties.

Set the Background Color

Following is the example, which demonstrates how to set the background color for an
element.

<p style="background-color:yellow;">
This text has a yellow background color.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text has a yellow background color.

Set the Background Image

<table style="background-image:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif);">
<tr><td>
This table has background image set.
</td></tr>
</table>

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Repeat the Background Image

The following example demonstrates how to repeat the background image if an image is
small. You can use no-repeat value for the background-repeat property if you don't want
to repeat an image. In this case, the image will display only once.

By default, the background-repeat property will have a repeat value.

<table style="background-image:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;">
<tr><td>
This table has background image which repeats multiple times.
</td></tr>
</table>

The following example which demonstrates how to repeat the background image
vertically.

<table style="background-image:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;">
<tr><td>
This table has background image set which will repeat vertically.
</td></tr>
</table>

The following example demonstrates how to repeat the background image horizontally.

<table style="background-image:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-x;">
<tr><td>
This table has background image set which will repeat horizontally.
</td></tr>
</table>

Set the Background Image Position

The following example demonstrates how to set the background image position 100
pixels away from the left side.

<table style="background-image:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif);
background-position:100px;">
<tr><td>
Background image positioned 100 pixels away from the left.
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</td></tr>
</table>

The following example demonstrates how to set the background image position 100
pixels away from the left side and 200 pixels down from the top.

<table style="background-image:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif);
background-position:100px 200px;">
<tr><td>
This table has background image positioned 100
pixels away from the left and 200 pixels from the top.
</td></tr>
</table>

Set the Background Attachment

Background attachment determines whether a background image is fixed or scrolls with
the rest of the page.

The following example demonstrates how to set the fixed background image.

<p style="background-image:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif);
background-attachment:fixed;">
This parapgraph has fixed background image.
</p>

The following example demonstrates how to set the scrolling background image.

<p style="background-image:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif);
background-attachment:scroll;">
This parapgraph has scrolling background image.
</p>

Shorthand Property
You can use the background property to set all the background properties at once. For
example:

<p style="background:url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/pattern1.gif) repeat fixed;">

This parapgraph has fixed repeated background image.
</p>

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7. CSS ─ Fonts

This chapter teaches you how to set fonts of a content, available in an HTML element.
You can set the following font properties of an element:

 The font-family property is used to change the face of a font.

 The font-style property is used to make a font italic or oblique.

 The font-variant property is used to create a small-caps effect.

 The font-weight property is used to increase or decrease how bold or light a font
appears.

 The font-size property is used to increase or decrease the size of a font.

 The font property is used as shorthand to specify a number of other font

properties.

Set the Font Family

Following is the example, which demonstrates how to set the font family of an element.
Possible value could be any font family name.

<p style="font-family:georgia,garamond,serif;">
This text is rendered in either georgia, garamond, or the default
serif font depending on which font you have at your system.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text is rendered in either georgia, garamond, or the default

serif font depending on which font you have at your system.

Set the Font Style

The following example demonstrates how to set the font style of an element. Possible
values are normal, italic and oblique.

<p style="font-style:italic;">
This text will be rendered in italic style
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text will be rendered in italic style

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Set the Font Variant

The following example demonstrates how to set the font variant of an element. Possible
values are normal and small-caps.

<p style="font-variant:small-caps;">
This text will be rendered as small caps
</p>

It will produce the following result:

THIS TEXT WILL BE RENEDERED AS SMALL CAPS

Set the Font Weight

The following example demonstrates how to set the font weight of an element. The font-
weight property provides the functionality to specify how bold a font is. Possible values
could be normal, bold, bolder, lighter, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900.

<p style="font-weight:bold;">
This font is bold.
</p>
<p style="font-weight:bolder;">
This font is bolder.
</p>
<p style="font-weight:900;">
This font is 900 weight.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This font is bold.

This font is bolder.
This font is 900 weight.

Set the Font Size

The following example demonstrates how to set the font size of an element. The font-
size property is used to control the size of fonts. Possible values could be xx-small, x-
small, small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large, smaller, larger, size in pixels or in %.

<p style="font-size:20px;">
This font size is 20 pixels
</p>

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<p style="font-size:small;">
This font size is small
</p>
<p style="font-size:large;">
This font size is large
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This font size is 20 pixels

This font size is small

This font size is large

Set the Font Size Adjust

The following example demonstrates how to set the font size adjust of an element. This
property enables you to adjust the x-height to make fonts more legible. Possible value
could be any number.

<p style="font-size-adjust:0.61;">
This text is using a font-size-adjust value.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text is using a font-size-adjust value.

Set the Font Stretch

The following example demonstrates how to set the font stretch of an element. This
property relies on the user's computer to have an expanded or condensed version of the
font being used.

Possible values could be normal, wider, narrower, ultra-condensed, extra-condensed,

condensed, semi-condensed, semi-expanded, expanded, extra-expanded, ultra-
expanded.

<p style="font-stretch:ultra-expanded;">
If this doesn't appear to work, it is likely that
your computer doesn't have a condensed or expanded
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version of the font being used.

</p>

It will produce the following result:

If this doesn't appear to work, it is likely that your computer doesn't have a condensed or
expanded version of the font being used.

Shorthand Property
You can use the font property to set all the font properties at once. For example:

<p style="font:italic small-caps bold 15px georgia;">

Applying all the properties on the text at once.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

APPLYING ALL THE PROPERTIES ON THE TEXT AT ONCE.

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8. CSS ─ Text

This chapter teaches you how to manipulate text using CSS properties. You can set the
following text properties of an element:

 The color property is used to set the color of a text.

 The direction property is used to set the text direction.

 The letter-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the letters
that make up a word.

 The word-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the words
of a sentence.

 The text-indent property is used to indent the text of a paragraph.

 The text-align property is used to align the text of a document.

 The text-decoration property is used to underline, overline, and strikethrough

text.

 The text-transform property is used to capitalize text or convert text to

uppercase or lowercase letters.

 The white-space property is used to control the flow and formatting of text.

 The text-shadow property is used to set the text shadow around a text.

Set the Text Color

The following example demonstrates how to set the text color. Possible value could be
any color name in any valid format.

<p style="color:red;">
This text will be written in red.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text will be written in red.

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Set the Text Direction

The following example demonstrates how to set the direction of a text. Possible values
are ltr or rtl.

<p style="direction:rtl;">
This text will be renedered from right to left
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text will be renedered from right to left

Set the Space between Characters

The following example demonstrates how to set the space between characters. Possible
values are normal or a number specifying space.

<p style="letter-spacing:5px;">
This text is having space between letters.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text is having space between letters.

Set the Space between Words

The following example demonstrates how to set the space between words. Possible
values are normal or a number specifying space.

<p style="word-spacing:5px;">
This text is having space between words.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text is having space between words.

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Set the Text Indent

The following example demonstrates how to indent the first line of a paragraph. Possible
values are % or a number specifying indent space.

<p style="text-indent:1cm;">
This text will have first line indented by 1cm
and this line will remain at its actual position
this is done by CSS text-indent property.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text will have first line indented by 1cm

and this line will remain at its actual position
this is done by CSS text-indent property.

Set the Text Alignment

The following example demonstrates how to align a text. Possible values are left, right,
center, justify.

<p style="text-align:right;">
This will be right aligned.
</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">
This will be center aligned.
</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">
This will be left aligned.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This will be right aligned.

This will be center aligned.

This will be left aligned.

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Decorating the Text

The following example demonstrates how to decorate a text. Possible values are none,
underline, overline, line-through, blink.

<p style="text-decoration:underline;">
This will be underlined
</p>
<p style="text-decoration:line-through;">
This will be striked through.
</p>
<p style="text-decoration:overline;">
This will have an over line.
</p>
<p style="text-decoration:blink;">
This text will have blinking effect
</p>

It will produce the following result:

This will be underlined

This will be striked through.

This will have an over line.

This text will have blinking effect

Set the Text Cases

The following example demonstrates how to set the cases for a text. Possible values
are none, capitalize, uppercase, lowercase.

<p style="text-transform:capitalize;">
This will be capitalized
</p>
<p style="text-transform:uppercase;">
This will be in uppercase
</p>
<p style="text-transform:lowercase;">
This will be in lowercase
</p>

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It will produce the following result:

This Will Be Capitalized

THIS WILL BE IN UPPERCASE

this will be in lowercase

Set the White Space between Text

The following example demonstrates how white space inside an element is handled.
Possible values are normal, pre, nowrap.

<p style="white-space:pre;">This text has a line break

and the white-space pre setting tells the browser to honor it
just like the HTML pre tag.</p>

It will produce the following result:

This text has a line break

and the white-space pre setting tells the browser to honor it

just like the HTML pre tag.

Set the Text Shadow

The following example demonstrates how to set the shadow around a text. This may not
be supported by all the browsers.

<p style="text-shadow:4px 4px 8px blue;">

If your browser supports the CSS text-shadow property,
this text will have a blue shadow.</p>

It will produce the following result:

If your browser supports the CSS text-shadow property, this text will have a blue shadow.

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9. CSS ─ Images

Images play an important role in any webpage. Though it is not recommended to include
a lot of images, but it is still important to use good images wherever required.

CSS plays a good role to control image display. You can set the following image
properties using CSS.

 The border property is used to set the width of an image border.

 The height property is used to set the height of an image.

 The width property is used to set the width of an image.

 The -moz-opacity property is used to set the opacity of an image.

The Image Border Property

The border property of an image is used to set the width of an image border. This
property can have a value in length or in %.

A width of zero pixels means no border.

Here is an example:

<img style="border:0px;" src="/images/css.gif" />

<br />
<img style="border:3px dashed red;" src="/images/css.gif" />

It will produce the following result:

The Image Height Property

The height property of an image is used to set the height of an image. This property can
have a value in length or in %. While giving value in %, it applies it in respect of the box
in which an image is available.
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Here is an example:

<img style="border:1px solid red; height:100px;"

src="/images/css.gif" />
<br />
<img style="border:1px solid red; height:50%;"
src="/images/css.gif" />

It will produce the following result:

The Image Width Property

The width property of an image is used to set the width of an image. This property can
have a value in length or in %. While giving value in %, it applies it in respect of the box
in which an image is available.

Here is an example:

<img style="border:1px solid red; width:100px;"

src="/images/css.gif" />
<br />
<img style="border:1px solid red; width:100%;"
src="/images/css.gif" />

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It will produce the following result:

The -moz-opacity Property

The -moz-opacity property of an image is used to set the opacity of an image. This
property is used to create a transparent image in Mozilla. IE
uses filter:alpha(opacity=x) to create transparent images.

In Mozilla (-moz-opacity:x), x can be a value from 0.0 - 1.0. A lower value makes the
element more transparent (The same things goes for the CSS3-valid syntax opacity:x).

In IE (filter:alpha(opacity=x)), x can be a value from 0 - 100. A lower value makes the

element more transparent.

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Here is an example:

<img style="border:1px solid red;-moz-opacity:0.4;filter:alpha(opacity=40);"

src="/images/css.gif" />

It will produce the following result:

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10. CSS ─ Links

This chapter teaches you how to set different properties of a hyper link using CSS. You
can set the following properties of a hyperlink:

We will revisit the same properties when we will discuss Pseudo-Classes of CSS.

 The :link signifies unvisited hyperlinks.

 The :visited signifies visited hyperlinks.

 The :hover signifies an element that currently has the user's mouse pointer
hovering over it.

 The :active signifies an element on which the user is currently clicking.

Usually, all these properties are kept in the header part of the HTML document.

Remember a:hover MUST come after a:link and a:visited in the CSS definition in order
to be effective. Also, a:active MUST come after a:hover in the CSS definition as follows:

<style type="text/css">
a:link {color: #000000}

a:visited {color: #006600}

a:hover {color: #FFCC00}
a:active {color: #FF00CC}
</style>

Now, we will see how to use these properties to give different effects to hyperlinks.

Set the Color of Links

The following example demonstrates how to set the link color. Possible values could be
any color name in any valid format.

<style type="text/css">
a:link {color:#000000}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Black Link</a>

It will produce the following black link:

Black Link

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Set the Color of Visited Links

The following example demonstrates how to set the color of the visited links. Possible
values could be any color name in any valid format.

<style type="text/css">
a:visited {color: #006600}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Click this link</a>

It will produce the following link. Once you click this link, it will change its color to green.

Click this link

Change the Color of Links when Mouse is Over

The following example demonstrates how to change the color of links when we bring a
mouse pointer over that link. Possible values could be any color name in any valid
format.

<style type="text/css">
a:hover {color: #FFCC00}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Bring Mouse Here</a>

It will produce the following link. Now, you bring your mouse over this link and you will
see that it changes its color to yellow.

Bring Mouse Here

Change the Color of Active Links

The following example demonstrates how to change the color of active links. Possible
values could be any color name in any valid format.

<style type="text/css">
a:active {color: #FF00CC}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Click This Link</a>

It will produce the following link. It will change its color to pink when the user clicks it.

Click This Link

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11. CSS ─ Tables

This chapter teaches you how to set different properties of an HTML table using CSS.
You can set the following properties of a table:

 The border-collapse specifies whether the browser should control the

appearance of the adjacent borders that touch each other or whether each cell
should maintain its style.

 The border-spacing specifies the width that should appear between table cells.

 The caption-side captions are presented in the <caption> element. By default,

these are rendered above the table in the document. You use the caption-side
property to control the placement of the table caption.

 The empty-cells specifies whether the border should be shown if a cell is empty.

 The table-layout allows browsers to speed up the layout of a table by using the
first width properties it comes across for the rest of a column rather than having
to load the whole table before rendering it.

Now, we will see how to use these properties with examples.

The order-collapse Property

This property can have two values collapse and separate. The following example uses
both the values:

<style type="text/css">
table.one {border-collapse:collapse;}
table.two {border-collapse:separate;}
td.a {
border-style:dotted;
border-width:3px;
border-color:#000000;
padding: 10px;
}
td.b {border-style:solid;
border-width:3px;
border-color:#333333;
padding:10px;
}
</style>
<table class="one">
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<caption>Collapse Border Example</caption>

<tr><td class="a"> Cell A Collapse Example</td></tr>
<tr><td class="b"> Cell B Collapse Example</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table class="two">
<caption>Separate Border Example</caption>
<tr><td class="a"> Cell A Separate Example</td></tr>
<tr><td class="b"> Cell B Separate Example</td></tr>
</table>

It will produce the following result:

Collapse Border Example

Cell A Collapse Example

Cell B Collapse Example

Separate Border Example

Cell A Separate Example

Cell B Separate Example

The border-spacing Property

The border-spacing property specifies the distance that separates the adjacent cells’
borders. It can take either one or two values; these should be units of length.

If you provide one value, it applies to both vertical and horizontal borders. Or you can
specify two values, in which case, the first refers to the horizontal spacing and the
second to the vertical spacing:

NOTE: Unfortunately, this property does not work in Netscape 7 or IE 6.

<style type="text/css">
/* If you provide one value */
table.example {border-spacing:10px;}
/* This is how you can provide two values */

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table.example {border-spacing:10px; 15px;}

</style>

Now let's modify the previous example and see the effect:

<style type="text/css">
table.one {
border-collapse:separate;
width:400px;
border-spacing:10px;
}
table.two {
border-collapse:separate;
width:400px;
border-spacing:10px 50px;
}
</style>
<table class="one" border="1">
<caption>Separate Border Example with border-spacing</caption>
<tr><td> Cell A Collapse Example</td></tr>
<tr><td> Cell B Collapse Example</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table class="two" border="1">
<caption>Separate Border Example with border-spacing</caption>
<tr><td> Cell A Separate Example</td></tr>
<tr><td> Cell B Separate Example</td></tr>
</table>

It will produce the following result:

Separate Border Example with border-spacing

Cell A Collapse Example

Cell B Collapse Example

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Separate Border Example with border-spacing

Cell A Separate Example

Cell B Separate Example

The caption-side Property

The caption-side property allows you to specify where the content of a <caption>
element should be placed in relationship to the table. The table that follows lists the
possible values.

This property can have one of the four values top, bottom, left, or right. The following
example uses each value.

NOTE: These properties may not work with your IE Browser.

<style type="text/css">
caption.top {caption-side:top}
caption.bottom {caption-side:bottom}
caption.left {caption-side:left}
caption.right {caption-side:right}
</style>

<table style="width:400px; border:1px solid black;">

<caption class="top">
This caption will appear at the top
</caption>
<tr><td > Cell A</td></tr>
<tr><td > Cell B</td></tr>
</table>
<br />

<table style="width:400px; border:1px solid black;">

<caption class="bottom">
This caption will appear at the bottom
</caption>
<tr><td > Cell A</td></tr>
<tr><td > Cell B</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
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<table style="width:400px; border:1px solid black;">

<caption class="left">
This caption will appear at the left
</caption>
<tr><td > Cell A</td></tr>
<tr><td > Cell B</td></tr>
</table>
<br />

<table style="width:400px; border:1px solid black;">

<caption class="right">
This caption will appear at the right
</caption>
<tr><td > Cell A</td></tr>
<tr><td > Cell B</td></tr>
</table>

It will produce the following result:

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The empty-cells Property

The empty-cells property indicates whether a cell without any content should have a
border displayed.

This property can have one of the three values - show, hide, or inherit.

Here is the empty-cells property used to hide borders of empty cells in the <table>
element.

<style type="text/css">
table.empty{
width:350px;
border-collapse:separate;
empty-cells:hide;
}
td.empty{
padding:5px;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#999999;
}
</style>
<table class="empty">
<tr>
<th></th>
<th>Title one</th>
<th>Title two</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Row Title</th>
<td class="empty">value</td>
<td class="empty">value</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Row Title</th>
<td class="empty">value</td>
<td class="empty"></td>
</tr>
</table>

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It will produce the following result:

Title one Title two

Row Title value value

Row Title value

The table-layout Property

The table-layout property is supposed to help you control how a browser should render
or lay out a table.

This property can have one of the three values: fixed, auto, or inherit.

The following example shows the difference between these properties.

NOTE: This property is not supported by many browsers, so do not rely on this property.

<style type="text/css">
table.auto
{
table-layout: auto
}
table.fixed
{
table-layout: fixed
}
</style>
<table class="auto" border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="20%">1000000000000000000000000000</td>
<td width="40%">10000000</td>
<td width="40%">100</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<table class="fixed" border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="20%">1000000000000000000000000000</td>
<td width="40%">10000000</td>

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<td width="40%">100</td>
</tr>
</table>

It will produce the following result:

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12. CSS ─ Borders

The border properties allow you to specify how the border of the box representing an
element should look. There are three properties of a border you can change:

 The border-color specifies the color of a border.

 The border-style specifies whether a border should be solid, dashed line, double
line, or one of the other possible values.

 The border-width specifies the width of a border.

Now, we will see how to use these properties with examples.

The border-color Property

The border-color property allows you to change the color of the border surrounding an
element. You can individually change the color of the bottom, left, top and right sides of
an element's border using the properties:

 border-bottom-color changes the color of bottom border.

 border-top-color changes the color of top border.

 border-left-color changes the color of left border.

 border-right-color changes the color of right border.

The following example shows the effect of all these properties:

<style type="text/css">
p.example1{
border:1px solid;
border-bottom-color:#009900; /* Green */

border-top-color:#FF0000; /* Red */
border-left-color:#330000; /* Black */
border-right-color:#0000CC; /* Blue */
}
p.example2{
border:1px solid;
border-color:#009900; /* Green */
}
</style>
<p class="example1">
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</p>
<p class="example2">
This example is showing all borders in green color only.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

The border-style Property

The border-style property allows you to select one of the following styles of border:

 none: No border. (Equivalent of border-width:0;)

 solid: Border is a single solid line.

 dotted: Border is a series of dots.

 dashed: Border is a series of short lines.

 double: Border is two solid lines.

 groove: Border looks as though it is carved into the page.

 ridge: Border looks the opposite of groove.

 inset: Border makes the box look like it is embedded in the page.

 outset: Border makes the box look like it is coming out of the canvas.

 hidden: Same as none, except in terms of border-conflict resolution for table

elements.

You can individually change the style of the bottom, left, top, and right borders of an
element using the following properties:

 border-bottom-style changes the style of bottom border.

 border-top-style changes the style of top border.

 border-left-style changes the style of left border.

 border-right-style changes the style of right border.

The following example shows all these border styles:

<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:none;">

This is a border with none width.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:solid;">
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This is a solid border.

</p>
<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:dashed;">
This is a dahsed border.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:double;">
This is a double border.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:groove;">
This is a groove border.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:ridge">
This is aridge border.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:inset;">
This is a inset border.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:outset;">
This is a outset border.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:hidden;">
This is a hidden border.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4px;
border-top-style:solid;
border-bottom-style:dashed;
border-left-style:groove;
border-right-style:double;">
This is a a border with four different styles.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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The border-width Property

The border-width property allows you to set the width of an element borders. The value
of this property could be either a length in px, pt, or cm, or it should be set to thin,
medium, or thick.

You can individually change the width of the bottom, top, left, and right borders of an
element using the following properties:

 border-bottom-width changes the width of bottom border.

 border-top-width changes the width of top border.

 border-left-width changes the width of left border.

 border-right-width changes the width of right border.

The following example shows all these border width:

<p style="border-width:4px; border-style:solid;">

This is a solid border whose width is 4px.
</p>
<p style="border-width:4pt; border-style:solid;">
This is a solid border whose width is 4pt.
</p>
<p style="border-width:thin; border-style:solid;">
This is a solid border whose width is thin.
</p>
<p style="border-width:medium; border-style:solid;">
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This is a solid border whose width is medium;

</p>
<p style="border-width:thick; border-style:solid;">
This is a solid border whose width is thick.
</p>
<p style="border-bottom-width:4px;
border-top-width:10px;
border-left-width: 2px;
border-right-width:15px;
border-style:solid;">
This is a a border with four different width.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

Border Properties Using Shorthand

The border property allows you to specify color, style, and width of lines in one property:

The following example shows how to use all the three properties into a single property.
This is the most frequently used property to set border around any element.

<p style="border:4px solid red;">

This example is showing shorthand property for border.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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13. CSS ─ Margins

The margin property defines the space around an HTML element. It is possible to use
negative values to overlap content.

The values of the margin property are not inherited by the child elements. Remember
that the adjacent vertical margins (top and bottom margins) will collapse into each other
so that the distance between the blocks is not the sum of the margins, but only the
greater of the two margins or the same size as one margin if both are equal.

We have the following properties to set an element margin.

 The margin specifies a shorthand property for setting the margin properties in
one declaration.

 The margin-bottom specifies the bottom margin of an element.

 The margin-top specifies the top margin of an element.

 The margin-left specifies the left margin of an element.

 The margin-right specifies the right margin of an element.

Now, we will see how to use these properties with examples.

The Margin Property

The margin property allows you to set all of the properties for the four margins in one
declaration. Here is the syntax to set margin around a paragraph:

<style type="text/css">
p {margin: 15px}
all four margins will be 15px

p {margin: 10px 2%}

top and bottom margin will be 10px, left and right margin will be 2% of the
total width of the document.

p {margin: 10px 2% -10px}

top margin will be 10px, left and right margin will be 2% of the total width of
the document, bottom margin will be -10px

p {margin: 10px 2% -10px auto}

top margin will be 10px, right margin will be 2% of the total width of the
document, bottom margin will be -10px, left margin will be set by the browser
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</style>

Here is an example:

<p style="margin: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

all four margins will be 15px
</p>

<p style="margin:10px 2%; border:1px solid black;">

top and bottom margin will be 10px, left and right margin will be 2% of the
total width of the document.
</p>

<p style="margin: 10px 2% -10px; border:1px solid black;">

top margin will be 10px, left and right margin will be 2% of the total width of
the document, bottom margin will be -10px
</p>

<p style="margin: 10px 2% -10px auto; border:1px solid black;">

top margin will be 10px, right margin will be 2% of the total width of the
document, bottom margin will be -10px, left margin will be set by the browser
</p>

It will produce the following result:

The margin-bottom Property

The margin-bottom property allows you to set the bottom margin of an element. It can
have a value in length, %, or auto.

Here is an example:
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<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

This is a paragraph with a specified bottom margin
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 5%; border:1px solid black;">
This is another paragraph with a specified bottom margin in percent
</p>

It will produce the following result:

The margin-top Property

The margin-top property allows you to set the top margin of an element. It can have a
value in length, %, or auto.

Here is an example:

<p style="margin-top: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

This is a paragraph with a specified top margin
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 5%; border:1px solid black;">
This is another paragraph with a specified top margin in percent
</p>

It will produce the following result:

The margin-left Property

The margin-left property allows you to set the left margin of an element. It can have a
value in length, %, or auto.

Here is an example:

<p style="margin-left: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

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This is a paragraph with a specified left margin

</p>
<p style="margin-left: 5%; border:1px solid black;">
This is another paragraph with a specified top margin in percent
</p>

It will produce the following result:

The margin-right Property

The margin-right property allows you to set the right margin of an element. It can have
a value in length, %, or auto.

Here is an example:

<p style="margin-right: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

This is a paragraph with a specified right margin
</p>
<p style="margin-right: 5%; border:1px solid black;">
This is another paragraph with a specified right margin in percent
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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14. CSS ─ Lists

Lists are very helpful in conveying a set of either numbered or bulleted points. This
chapter teaches you how to control list type, position, style, etc., using CSS.

We have the following five CSS properties, which can be used to control lists:

 The list-style-type allows you to control the shape or appearance of the marker.

 The list-style-position specifies whether a long point that wraps to a second line
should align with the first line or start underneath the start of the marker.

 The list-style-image specifies an image for the marker rather than a bullet point
or number.

 The list-style serves as shorthand for the preceding properties.

 The marker-offset specifies the distance between a marker and the text in the
list.

Now we will see how to use these properties with examples.

The list-style-type Property

The list-style-type property allows you to control the shape or style of a bullet point (also
known as a marker) in case of unordered lists and the style of numbering characters in
ordered lists.

Here are the values, which can be used for an unordered list:

Value Description

None NA

disc (default) A filled-in circle

Circle An empty circle

Square A filled-in square

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Here are the values, which can be used for an ordered list:

Value Description Example

Decimal Number 1,2,3,4,5

decimal-leading-
0 before the number 01, 02, 03, 04, 05
zero

lower-alpha Lowercase alphanumeric characters a, b, c, d, e

upper-alpha Uppercase alphanumeric characters A, B, C, D, E

lower-roman Lowercase Roman numerals i, ii, iii, iv, v

upper-roman Uppercase Roman numerals I, II, III, IV, V

lower-greek The marker is lower-greek alpha, beta, gamma

lower-latin The marker is lower-latin a, b, c, d, e

upper-latin The marker is upper-latin A, B, C, D, E

The marker is traditional Hebrew

hebrew
numbering

The marker is traditional Armenian

armenian
numbering

The marker is traditional Georgian

georgian
numbering

The marker is plain ideographic

cjk-ideographic
numbers

hiragana The marker is hiragana a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki

katakana The marker is katakana A, I, U, E, O, KA, KI

hiragana-iroha The marker is hiragana-iroha i, ro, ha, ni, ho, he, to

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I, RO, HA, NI, HO,

katakana-iroha The marker is katakana-iroha
HE, TO

Here is an example:

<ul style="list-style-type:circle;">
<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ul>

<ul style="list-style-type:square;">
<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ul>

<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">
<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ol>

<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;">
<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ol>

<ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman;">
<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ol>

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It will produce the following result:

The list-style-position Property

The list-style-position property indicates whether the marker should appear inside or
outside of the box containing the bullet points. It can have one of the two values:

Value Description

none NA

inside If the text goes onto a second line, the text will wrap underneath the marker.
It will also appear indented to where the text would have started if the list
had a value of outside.

outside If the text goes onto a second line, the text will be aligned with the start of
the first line (to the right of the bullet).

Here is an example:

<ul style="list-style-type:circle; list-stlye-position:outside;">

<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ul>

<ul style="list-style-type:square;list-style-position:inside;">

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<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ul>

<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;list-stlye-position:outside;">
<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ol>

<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;list-style-position:inside;">
<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ol>

It will produce the following result:

The list-style-image Property

The list-style-image allows you to specify an image so that you can use your own bullet
style. The syntax is similar to the background-image property with the letters url starting
the value of the property followed by the URL in brackets. If it does not find the given
image then default bullets are used.

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Here is an example:

<ul>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/bullet.gif);">Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ul>

<ol>
<li style="list-style-image: url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/bullet.gif);">Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ol>

It will produce the following result:

The list-style Property

The list-style allows you to specify all the list properties into a single expression. These
properties can appear in any order.

Here is an example:

<ul style="list-style: inside square;">

<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ul>

<ol style="list-style: outside upper-alpha;">

<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ol>

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It will produce the following result:

The marker-offset Property

The marker-offset property allows you to specify the distance between the marker and
the text relating to that marker. Its value should be a length as shown in the following
example:

Unfortunately, this property is not supported in IE 6 or Netscape 7.

Here is an example:

<ul style="list-style: inside square; marker-offset:2em;">

<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ul>

<ol style="list-style: outside upper-alpha; marker-offset:2cm;">

<li>Maths</li>
<li>Social Science</li>
<li>Physics</li>
</ol>

It will produce the following result:

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15. CSS ─ Paddings

The padding property allows you to specify how much space should appear between the
content of an element and its border:

The value of this attribute should be either a length, a percentage, or the word inherit. If
the value is inherit, it will have the same padding as its parent element. If a percentage
is used, the percentage is of the containing box.

The following CSS properties can be used to control lists. You can also set different
values for the padding on each side of the box using the following properties:

 The padding-bottom specifies the bottom padding of an element.

 The padding-top specifies the top padding of an element.

 The padding-left specifies the left padding of an element.

 The padding-right specifies the right padding of an element.

 The padding serves as shorthand for the preceding properties.

Now, we will see how to use these properties with examples.

The padding-bottom Property

The padding-bottom property sets the bottom padding (space) of an element. This can
take a value in terms of length of %.

Here is an example:

<p style="padding-bottom: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

This is a paragraph with a specified bottom padding
</p>

<p style="padding-bottom: 5%; border:1px solid black;">

This is another paragraph with a specified bottom padding in percent
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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The padding-top Property

The padding-top property sets the top padding (space) of an element. This can take a
value in terms of length of %.

Here is an example:

<p style="padding-top: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

This is a paragraph with a specified top padding
</p>

<p style="padding-top: 5%; border:1px solid black;">

This is another paragraph with a specified top padding in percent
</p>

It will produce the following result:

The padding-left Property

The padding-left property sets the left padding (space) of an element. This can take a
value in terms of length of %.

Here is an example:

<p style="padding-left: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

This is a paragraph with a specified left padding
</p>

<p style="padding-left: 15%; border:1px solid black;">

This is another paragraph with a specified left padding in percent
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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The padding-right Property

The padding-right property sets the right padding (space) of an element. This can take a
value in terms of length of %.

Here is an example:

<p style="padding-right: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

This is a paragraph with a specified right padding
</p>

<p style="padding-right: 5%; border:1px solid black;">

This is another paragraph with a specified right padding in percent
</p>

It will produce the following result:

The Padding Property

The padding property sets the left, right, top and bottom padding (space) of an element.
This can take a value in terms of length of %.

Here is an example:

<p style="padding: 15px; border:1px solid black;">

all four padding will be 15px

</p>

<p style="padding:10px 2%; border:1px solid black;">

top and bottom padding will be 10px, left and right padding will be 2% of the
total width of the document.
</p>

<p style="padding: 10px 2% 10px; border:1px solid black;">

top padding will be 10px, left and right padding will be 2% of the total width
of the document, bottom padding will be 10px
</p>

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<p style="padding: 10px 2% 10px 10px; border:1px solid black;">

top padding will be 10px, right padding will be 2% of the total width of the
document, bottom padding and top padding will be 10px
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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16. CSS ─ Cursors

The cursor property of CSS allows you to specify the type of cursor that should be
displayed to the user.

One good usage of this property is in using images for submit buttons on forms. By
default, when a cursor hovers over a link, the cursor changes from a pointer to a hand.
However, it does not change form for a submit button on a form. Therefore, whenever
someone hovers over an image that is a submit button, it provides a visual clue that the
image is clickable.

The following table shows the possible values for the cursor property:

Value Description

auto Shape of the cursor depends on the context area it is over. For example,
an ‘I’ over text, a ‘hand’ over a link, and so on.

crosshair A crosshair or plus sign.

default An arrow.

pointer A pointing hand (in IE 4 this value is hand).

move The ‘I’ bar.

e-resize The cursor indicates that an edge of a box is to be moved right (east).

ne-resize The cursor indicates that an edge of a box is to be moved up and right
(north/east).

nw- The cursor indicates that an edge of a box is to be moved up and left
resize (north/west).

n-resize The cursor indicates that an edge of a box is to be moved up (north).

se-resize The cursor indicates that an edge of a box is to be moved down and right
(south/east).

sw- The cursor indicates that an edge of a box is to be moved down and left
resize (south/west).

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s-resize The cursor indicates that an edge of a box is to be moved down (south).

w-resize The cursor indicates that an edge of a box is to be moved left (west).

text The I bar.

wait An hour glass.

help A question mark or balloon, ideal for use over help buttons.

<url> The source of a cursor image file.

NOTE: You should try to use only these values to add helpful information for users, and
in places, they would expect to see that cursor. For example, using the crosshair when
someone hovers over a link can confuse the visitors.

Here is an example:

<p>Move the mouse over the words to see the cursor change:</p>
<div style="cursor:auto">Auto</div>
<div style="cursor:crosshair">Crosshair</div>
<div style="cursor:default">Default</div>
<div style="cursor:pointer">Pointer</div>
<div style="cursor:move">Move</div>
<div style="cursor:e-resize">e-resize</div>
<div style="cursor:ne-resize">ne-resize</div>
<div style="cursor:nw-resize">nw-resize</div>
<div style="cursor:n-resize">n-resize</div>
<div style="cursor:se-resize">se-resize</div>
<div style="cursor:sw-resize">sw-resize</div>
<div style="cursor:s-resize">s-resize</div>
<div style="cursor:w-resize">w-resize</div>
<div style="cursor:text">text</div>
<div style="cursor:wait">wait</div>
<div style="cursor:help">help</div>

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It will produce the following result:

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17. CSS ─ Outlines

Outlines are very similar to borders, but there are few major differences as well:

 An outline does not take up space.

 Outlines do not have to be rectangular.

 Outline is always the same on all sides; you cannot specify different values for
different sides of an element.

NOTE: The outline properties are not supported by IE 6 or Netscape 7.

You can set the following outline properties using CSS.

 The outline-width property is used to set the width of the outline.

 The outline-style property is used to set the line style for the outline.

 The outline-color property is used to set the color of the outline.

 The outline property is used to set all the above three properties in a single
statement.

The outline-width Property

The outline-width property specifies the width of the outline to be added to the box. Its
value should be a length or one of the values thin, medium, or thick, just like the border-
width attribute.

A width of zero pixels means no outline.

Here is an example:

<p style="outline-width:thin; outline-style:solid;">

This text is having thin outline.
</p>
<br />
<p style="outline-width:thick; outline-style:solid;">
This text is having thick outline.
</p>
<br />
<p style="outline-width:5px; outline-style:solid;">
This text is having 5x outline.
</p>

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It will produce the following result:

The outline-style Property

The outline-style property specifies the style for the line (solid, dotted, or dashed) that
goes around an element. It can take one of the following values:

 none: No border. (Equivalent of outline-width:0;)

 solid: Outline is a single solid line.

 dotted: Outline is a series of dots.

 dashed: Outline is a series of short lines.

 double: Outline is two solid lines.

 groove: Outline looks as though it is carved into the page.

 ridge: Outline looks the opposite of groove.

 inset: Outline makes the box look like it is embedded in the page.

 outset: Outline makes the box look like it is coming out of the canvas.

 hidden: Same as none.

Here is an example:

<p style="outline-width:thin; outline-style:solid;">

This text is having thin solid outline.
</p>
<br />
<p style="outline-width:thick; outline-style:dashed;">
This text is having thick dashed outline.
</p>
<br />
<p style="outline-width:5px;outline-style:dotted;">
This text is having 5x dotted outline.
</p>

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It will produce the following result:

The outline-color Property

The outline-color property allows you to specify the color of the outline. Its value should
either be a color name, a hex color, or an RGB value, as with the color and border-color
properties.

Here is an example:

<p style="outline-width:thin; outline-style:solid;

outline-color:red">
This text is having thin solid red outline.
</p>
<br />
<p style="outline-width:thick; outline-style:dashed;
outline-color:#009900">
This text is having thick dashed green outline.
</p>
<br />
<p style="outline-width:5px;outline-style:dotted;
outline-color:rgb(13,33,232)">
This text is having 5x dotted blue outline.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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The Outline Property

The outline property is a shorthand property that allows you to specify values for any of
the three properties discussed previously in any order but in a single statement.

Here is an example:

<p style="outline:thin solid red;">

This text is having thin solid red outline.
</p>
<br />
<p style="outline:thick dashed #009900;">
This text is having thick dashed green outline.
</p>
<br />
<p style="outline:5px dotted rgb(13,33,232);">
This text is having 5x dotted blue outline.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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18. CSS ─ Dimension

You have seen the border that surrounds every box i.e. element, the padding that can
appear inside each box, and the margin that can go around them. In this chapter, we
will learn how to change the dimensions of boxes.

We have the following properties that allow you to control the dimensions of a box.

 The height property is used to set the height of a box.

 The width property is used to set the width of a box.

 The line-height property is used to set the height of a line of text.

 The max-height property is used to set a maximum height that a box can be .

 The min-height property is used to set the minimum height that a box can be .

 The max-width property is used to set the maximum width that a box can be .

 The min-width property is used to set the minimum width that a box can be .

The Height and Width Properties

The height and width properties allow you to set the height and width for boxes. They
can take values of a length, a percentage, or the keyword auto.

Here is an example:

<p style="width:400px; height:100px;border:1px solid red;

padding:5px; margin:10px;">
This paragraph is 400pixels wide and 100 pixels high
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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The line-height Property

The line-height property allows you to increase the space between lines of text. The
value of the line-height property can be a number, a length, or a percentage.

Here is an example:

<p style="width:400px; height:100px;border:1px solid red;

padding:5px; margin:10px;line-height:30px;">
This paragraph is 400pixels wide and 100 pixels high
and here line height is 30pixels.This paragraph is 400 pixels
wide and 100 pixels high and here line height is 30pixels.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

The max-height Property

The max-height property allows you to specify the maximum height of a box. The value
of the max-height property can be a number, a length, or a percentage.

NOTE: This property does not work in either Netscape 7 or IE 6.

Here is an example:

<p style="width:400px; max-height:10px;border:1px solid red;

padding:5px; margin:10px;">
This paragraph is 400px wide and max height is 10px
This paragraph is 400px wide and max height is 10px
This paragraph is 400px wide and max height is 10px
This paragraph is 400px wide and max height is 10px
</p>
<img alt="logo" src="/images/css.gif" width="95" height="84" />

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It will produce the following result:

The min-height Property

The min-height property allows you to specify the minimum height of a box. The value of
the min-height property can be a number, a length, or a percentage.

NOTE: This property does not work in either Netscape 7 or IE 6.

Here is an example:

<p style="width:400px; min-height:200px;border:1px solid red;

padding:5px; margin:10px;">
This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px
This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px
This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px
This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px
</p>
<img alt="logo" src="/images/css.gif" width="95" height="84" />

It will produce the following result:

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The max-width Property

The max-width property allows you to specify the maximum width of a box. The value of
the max-width property can be a number, a length, or a percentage.

NOTE: This property does not work in either Netscape 7 or IE 6.

Here is an example:

<p style="max-width:100px; height:200px;border:1px solid red;

padding:5px; margin:10px;">
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
</p>
<img alt="logo" src="/images/css.gif" width="95" height="84" />

It will produce the following result:

The min-width Property

The min-width property allows you to specify the minimum width of a box. The value of
the min-width property can be a number, a length, or a percentage.

NOTE: This property does not work in either Netscape 7 or IE 6.

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Here is an example:

<p style="min-width:400px; height:100px;border:1px solid red;

padding:5px; margin:10px;">
This paragraph is 100px high and min width is 400px
This paragraph is 100px high and min width is 400px
This paragraph is 100px high and min width is 400px
This paragraph is 100px high and min width is 400px
This paragraph is 100px high and min width is 400px
</p>
<img alt="logo" src="/images/css.gif" width="95" height="84" />

It will produce the following result:

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19. CSS ─ Scrollbars

There may be a case when an element's content might be larger than the amount of
space allocated to it. For example, the given width and height properties do not allow
enough room to accommodate the content of the element.

CSS provides a property called overflow, which tells the browser what to do if the box's
contents is larger than the box itself. This property can take one of the following values:

Value Description

visible Allows the content to overflow the borders of its containing element.

hidden The content of the nested element is simply cut off at the border of the
containing element and no scrollbars is visible.

scroll The size of the containing element does not change, but the scrollbars are
added to allow the user to scroll to see the content.

auto The purpose is the same as scroll, but the scrollbar will be shown only if the
content does overflow.

Here is an example:

<style type="text/css">
.scroll{
display:block;
border: 1px solid red;
padding:5px;
margin-top:5px;
width:300px;
height:50px;
overflow:scroll;
}
.auto{
display:block;
border: 1px solid red;
padding:5px;
margin-top:5px;
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width:300px;
height:50px;
overflow:auto;
}
</style>
<p>Example of scroll value:</p>
<div class="scroll">
I am going to keep lot of content here just to show
you how scrollbars works if there is an overflow in
an element box. This provides your horizontal as well
as vertical scrollbars.
</div>
<br />
<p>Example of auto value:</p>
<div class="auto">
I am going to keep lot of content here just to show
you how scrollbars works if there is an overflow in
an element box. This provides your horizontal as well
as vertical scrollbars.
</div>

It will produce the following result:

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20. CSS ─ Visibility

A property called visibility allows you to hide an element from view. You can use this
property along with JavaScript to create very complex menu and very complex webpage
layouts.

You may choose to use the visibility property to hide error messages that are only
displayed if the user needs to see them, or to hide answers to a quiz until the user
selects an option.

NOTE: Remember that the source code will still contain whatever is in the invisible
paragraph, so you should not use this to hide sensitive information such as credit card
details or passwords.

The visibility property can take the values listed in the table that follows:

Value Description

visible The box and its contents are shown to the user.

hidden The box and its content are made invisible, although they still affect the
layout of the page.

collapse This is for use only with dynamic table columns and row effects.

Here is an example:

<p>
This paragraph should be visible in normal way.
</p>
<p style="visibility:hidden;">
This paragraph should not be visible.
</p>

It will produce the following result:

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21. CSS ─ Positioning

CSS helps you to position your HTML element. You can put any HTML element at
whatever location you like. You can specify whether you want the element positioned
relative to its natural position in the page or absolute based on its parent element.

Now, we will see all the CSS positioning related properties with examples.

Relative Positioning
Relative positioning changes the position of the HTML element relative to where it
normally appears. So "left:20" adds 20 pixels to the element's LEFT position.

You can use two values top and left along with the position property to move an HTML
element anywhere in an HTML document.

 Move Left - Use a negative value for left.

 Move Right - Use a positive value for left.

 Move Up - Use a negative value for top.

 Move Down - Use a positive value for top.

NOTE: You can use the bottom or right values as well in the same way as top and left.

Here is an example:

<div style="position:relative;left:80px;top:2px;
background-color:yellow;">
This div has relative positioning.
</div>

It will produce the following result:

Absolute Positioning
An element with position: absolute is positioned at the specified coordinates relative to
your screen top-left corner.

You can use two values top and left along with the position property to move an HTML
element anywhere in HTML document.

 Move Left - Use a negative value for left.

 Move Right - Use a positive value for left.

 Move Up - Use a negative value for top.

 Move Down - Use a positive value for top.

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NOTE: You can use bottom or right values as well in the same way as top and left.

Here is an example:

<div style="position:absolute;left:80px;top:20px;
background-color:yellow;">
This div has absolute positioning.
</div>

Fixed Positioning
Fixed positioning allows you to fix the position of an element to a particular spot on the
page, regardless of scrolling. Specified coordinates will be relative to the browser
window.

You can use two values top and left along with the position property to move an HTML
element anywhere in the HTML document.

 Move Left - Use a negative value for left.

 Move Right - Use a positive value for left.

 Move Up - Use a negative value for top.

 Move Down - Use a positive value for top.

NOTE: You can use bottom or right values as well in the same way as top and left.

Here is an example:

<div style="position:fixed;left:80px;top:20px;
background-color:yellow;">
This div has fixed positioning.
</div>

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22. CSS ─ Layers

CSS gives you an opportunity to create layers of various divisions. The CSS layers refer
to applying the z-index property to elements that overlap with each other.

The z-index property is used along with the position property to create an effect of
layers. You can specify which element should come on top and which element should
come at bottom.

A z-index property can help you to create more complex webpage layouts. The following
example shows how to create layers in CSS.

<div style="background-color:red;
width:300px;
height:100px;
position:relative;
top:10px;
left:80px;
z-index:2">
</div>
<div style="background-color:yellow;
width:300px;
height:100px;
position:relative;
top:-60px;
left:35px;
z-index:1;">
</div>
<div style="background-color:green;
width:300px;
height:100px;
position:relative;
top:-220px;
left:120px;
z-index:3;">
</div>

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It will produce the following result:

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23. CSS ─ Pseudo Classes

CSS pseudo-classes are used to add special effects to some selectors. You do not need
to use JavaScript or any other script to use those effects. A simple syntax of pseudo-
classes is as follows:

selector:pseudo-class {property: value}

CSS classes can also be used with pseudo-classes:

selector.class:pseudo-class {property: value}

The most commonly used pseudo-classes are as follows:

Value Description

:link Use this class to add special style to an unvisited link.

:visited Use this class to add special style to a visited link.

:hover Use this class to add special style to an element when you mouse over it.

:active Use this class to add special style to an active element.

:focus Use this class to add special style to an element while the element has
focus.

:first- Use this class to add special style to an element that is the first child of
child some other element.

:lang Use this class to specify a language to use in a specified element.

While defining pseudo-classes in a <style>...</style> block, the following points should

be noted:

 a:hover MUST come after a:link and a:visited in the CSS definition in order to be
effective.

 a:active MUST come after a:hover in the CSS definition in order to be effective.

 Pseudo-class names are not case-sensitive.

 Pseudo-classes are different from CSS classes, but they can be combined.

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The :link pseudo-class

The following example demonstrates how to use :link class to set the link color. Possible
values could be any color name in any valid format.

<style type="text/css">
a:link {color:#000000}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Black Link</a>

It will produce the following black link:

The :visited pseudo-class

The following example demonstrates how to use :visited class to set the color of the
visited links. Possible values could be any color name in any valid format.

<style type="text/css">
a:visited {color: #006600}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Click this link</a>

It will produce the following link. Once you click this link, it will change its color to green.

The :hover pseudo-class

The following example demonstrates how to use the :hover class to change the color of
links when we bring a mouse pointer over that link. Possible values could be any color
name in any valid format.

<style type="text/css">
a:hover {color: #FFCC00}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Bring Mouse Here</a>

It will produce the following link. Now you bring your mouse over this link and you will
see that it changes its color to yellow.

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The :active pseudo-class

The following example demonstrates how to use the :active class to change the color of
active links. Possible values could be any color name in any valid format.

<style type="text/css">
a:active {color: #FF00CC}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Click This Link</a>

It will produce the following link. When a user clicks it, the color changes to pink.

The :focus pseudo-class

The following example demonstrates how to use the :focus class to change the color of
the focused links. Possible values could be any color name in any valid format.

<style type="text/css">
a:focus {color: #0000FF}
</style>
<a href="/html/index.htm">Click this Link</a>

It will produce the following link. When this link gets focused, its color changes to
orange. The color changes back when it loses focus.

The :first-child pseudo-class

The :first-child pseudo-class matches a specified element that is the first child of another
element and adds special style to that element that is the first child of some other
element.

To make :first-child work in IE <!DOCTYPE> must be declared at the top of document.

For example, to indent the first paragraph of all <div> elements, you could use this
definition:

<style type="text/css">
div > p:first-child
{
text-indent: 25px;
}
</style>
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<div>
<p>
First paragraph in div. This paragraph will be indented
</p>
<p>
Second paragraph in div. This paragraph will not be indented
</p>
</div>
<p>But it will not match the paragraph in this HTML:</p>
<div>
<h3>Heading</h3>
<p>
The first paragraph inside the div.
This paragraph will not be effected.
</p>
</div>

It will produce the following result:

The :lang pseudo-class

The language pseudo-class :lang, allows constructing selectors based on the language
setting for specific tags.

This class is useful in documents that must appeal to multiple languages that have
different conventions for certain language constructs. For example, the French language
typically uses angle brackets (< and >) for quoting purposes, while the English language
uses quote marks (' and ').

In a document that needs to address this difference, you can use the :lang pseudo-class
to change the quote marks appropriately. The following code changes the <blockquote>
tag appropriately for the language being used:

<style type="text/css">

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/* Two levels of quotes for two languages*/

:lang(en) { quotes: '"' '"' "'" "'"; }
:lang(fr) { quotes: "<<" ">>" "<" ">"; }
</style>
<p>...<q lang="fr">A quote in a paragraph</q>...</p>

The :lang selectors will apply to all the elements in a document. However, not all
elements make use of the quotes property, so the effect will be transparent for most
elements.

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24. CSS ─ Pseudo Elements

CSS pseudo-elements are used to add special effects to some selectors. You do not need
to use JavaScript or any other script to use those effects. A simple syntax of pseudo-
element is as follows:

selector:pseudo-element {property: value}

CSS classes can also be used with the pseudo-elements:

selector.class:pseudo-element {property: value}

The most commonly used pseudo-elements are as follows:

Value Description

:first-line Use this element to add special styles to the first line of the text in a
selector.

:first-letter Use this element to add special style to the first letter of the text in a
selector.

:before Use this element to insert some content before an element.

:after Use this element to insert some content after an element.

The :first-line pseudo-element

The following example demonstrates how to use the :first-line element to add special
effects to the first line of elements in a document.

<style type="text/css">
p:first-line { text-decoration: underline; }
p.noline:first-line { text-decoration: none; }
</style>
<p class="noline"> This line would not have any underline
because this belongs to nline class.</p>

<p>The first line of this paragraph will be underlined

as defined in the CSS rule above. Rest of the lines in this
paragraph will remain normal. This example shows how to use
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:first-line pseduo element to give effect to the first line

of any HTML element.</p>

It will produce the following link:

The :first-letter pseudo-element

The following example demonstrates how to use the :first-letter element to add special
effect to the first letter of elements in the document.

<style type="text/css">
p:first-letter { font-size: 5em; text-color:red; }
p.normal:first-letter { font-size: 10px; }
</style>
<p class="normal"> First character of this paragraph will
be normal and will have font size 10 px;</p>

<p>The first character of this paragraph will be 5em big

and in red color as defined in the CSS rule above. Rest of the
characters in this paragraph will remain normal. This example
shows how to use :first-letter pseduo element to give effect to
the first characters of any HTML element.</p>

It will produce the following black link:

The :before pseudo-element

The following example demonstrates how to use :before element to add some content
before any element.
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<style type="text/css">
p:before
{
content: url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/bullet.gif)
}
</style>
<p> This line will be preceded by a bullet.</p>
<p> This line will be preceded by a bullet.</p>
<p> This line will be preceded by a bullet.</p>

It will produce the following black link:

The :after pseudo-element

The following example demonstrates how to use :after element to add some content
after any element.

<style type="text/css">
p:after
{
content: url(/https/www.scribd.com/images/bullet.gif)
}
</style>
<p> This line will be succeeded by a bullet.</p>
<p> This line will be succeeded by a bullet.</p>
<p> This line will be succeeded by a bullet.</p>

It will produce the following black link:

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25. CSS ─ @ Rules

This chapter will cover the following important @ rules:

 The @import: rule imports another style sheet into the current style sheet.

 The @charset rule indicates the character set the style sheet uses.

 The @font-face rule is used to exhaustively describe a font face for use in a
document.

 The !important rule indicates that a user-defined rule should take precedence
over the author's style sheets.

NOTE: There are other @ rules which we will cover in subsequent chapters.

The @import Rule

The @import rule allows you to import styles from another style sheet. It should appear
right at the start of the style sheet before any of the rules, and its value is a URL.

It can be written in one of the two following ways:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
@import "mystyle.css";

or

@import url("mystyle.css");
.......other CSS rules .....
-->
</style>

The significance of the @import rule is that it allows you to develop your style sheets
with a modular approach. You can create various style sheets and then include them
wherever you need them.

The @charset Rule

If you are writing your document using a character set other than ASCII or ISO-8859-1
you might want to set the @charset rule at the top of your style sheet to indicate what
character set the style sheet is written in.

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The @charset rule must be written right at the beginning of the style sheet without even
a space before it. The value is held in quotes and should be one of the standard
character-sets. For example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
@charset "iso-8859-1"
.......other CSS rules .....
-->
</style>

The @font-face Rule

The @font-face rule is used to exhaustively describe a font face for use in a document.
@font-face may also be used to define the location of a font for download, although this
may run into implementation-specific limits.

In general, @font-face is extremely complicated, and its use is not recommended for any
except those who are expert in font metrics.

Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
@font-face {
font-family: "Scarborough Light";
src: url("http://www.font.site/s/scarbo-lt");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Santiago;
src: local ("Santiago"),
url("http://www.font.site/s/santiago.tt")
format("truetype");
unicode-range: U+??,U+100-220;
font-size: all;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
-->
</style>

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The !important Rule

Cascading Style Sheets cascade. It means that the styles are applied in the same order
as they are read by the browser. The first style is applied and then the second and so
on.

The !important rule provides a way to make your CSS cascade. It also includes the rules
that are to be applied always. A rule having a !important property will always be applied,
no matter where that rule appears in the CSS document.

For example, in the following style sheet, the paragraph text will be black, even though
the first style property applied is red:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
p { color: #ff0000; }
p { color: #000000; }
-->
</style>

So, if you wanted to make sure that a property always applied, you would add the
!important property to the tag. So, to make the paragraph text always red, you should
write it as follows:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
p { color: #ff0000 !important; }
p { color: #000000; }
-->
</style>

Here you have made p { color: #ff0000 !important; } mandatory, now this rule will
always apply even you have defined another rule p { color: #000000; }.

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26. CSS ─ Filters

You can use CSS filters to add special effects to text, images and other aspects of a
webpage without using images or other graphics. Filters only work on Internet
Explorer 4.0. If you are developing your site for multiple browsers, then it may not be a
good idea to use CSS filters because there is a possibility that it would not give any
advantage.

In this chapter, we will see the details of each CSS filter. These filters may not work in
your browser.

Alpha Channel
The Alpha Channel filter alters the opacity of the object, which makes it blend into the
background. The following parameters can be used in this filter:

Parameter Description

opacity Level of the opacity. 0 is fully transparent, 100 is fully opaque.

finishopacity Level of the opacity at the other end of the object.

Style The shape of the opacity gradient.

0 = uniform

1 = linear

2 = radial

3 = rectangular

startX X coordinate for opacity gradient to begin.

startY Y coordinate for opacity gradient to begin.

finishX X coordinate for opacity gradient to end.

finishY Y coordinate for opacity gradient to end.

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Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: Alpha(Opacity=100,

FinishOpacity=0, Style=2, StartX=20, StartY=40, FinishX=0, FinishY=0)">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: blue; Filter: Alpha(Opacity=100, FinishOpacity=0, Style=1, StartX=0,
StartY=0, FinishX=580, FinishY=0)">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

Motion Blur
Motion Blur is used to create blurred pictures or text with the direction and strength. The
following parameters can be used in this filter:

Parameter Description

add True or false. If true, the image is added to the blurred image; and if
false, the image is not added to the blurred image.

direction The direction of the blur, going clockwise, rounded to 45-degree

increments. The default value is 270 (left).

0 = Top

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45 = Top right

90 = Right

135 = Bottom right

180 = Bottom

225 = Bottom left

270 = Left

315 = Top left

strength The number of pixels the blur will extend. The default is 5 pixels.

Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: Blur(Add = 0,

Direction = 225, Strength = 10)">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: blue; Filter: Blur(Add = 1, Direction = 225, Strength = 10)">CSS
Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

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Chroma Filter
Chroma Filter is used to make any particular color transparent and usually it is used with
images. You can use it with scrollbars also. The following parameter can be used in this
filter:

Parameter Description

Color The color that you'd like to be transparent.

Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: Chroma(Color =

#FFFFFF)">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 580; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: #3300FF; Filter: Chroma(Color = #3300FF) ">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

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Drop Shadow Effect

Drop Shadow is used to create a shadow of your object at the specified X (horizontal)
and Y (vertical) offset and color.

The following parameters can be used in this filter:

Parameter Description

Color The color, in #RRGGBB format, of the dropshadow.

offX Number of pixels the drop shadow is offset from the visual object, along
the x-axis. Positive integers move the drop shadow to the right, negative
integers move the drop shadow to the left.

offY Number of pixels the drop shadow is offset from the visual object, along
the y-axis. Positive integers move the drop shadow down, negative
integers move the drop shadow up.

positive If true, all opaque pixels of the object have a dropshadow. If false, all
transparent pixels have a dropshadow. The default is true.

Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: Chroma(Color =

#000000) DropShadow(Color=#FF0000, OffX=2, OffY=2, Positive=1)">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; Filter: DropShadow(Color=#000000, OffX=2, OffY=2, Positive=1)">CSS
Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

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Flip Effect
Flip effect is used to create a mirror image of the object. The following parameters can
be used in this filter:

Parameter Description

FlipH Creates a horizontal mirror image.

FlipV Creates a vertical mirror image.

Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: FlipH">

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: FlipV">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 300; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; Filter: FlipV">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

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Glow Effect
Glow effect is used to create a glow around the object. If it is a transparent image, then
glow is created around the opaque pixels of it. The following parameters can be used in
this filter:

Parameter Description

color The color you want the glow to be.

strength The intensity of the glow (from 1 to 255).

Example
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<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: Chroma(Color =

#000000) Glow(Color=#00FF00, Strength=20) ">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; Filter: Glow(Color=#00FF00, Strength=20)">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

Grayscale Effect
Grayscale effect is used to convert the colors of the object to 256 shades of gray. The
following parameter is used in this filter:

Parameter Description

Gray Converts the colors of the object to 256 shades of gray.

Example

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<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: Gray">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; Filter: Gray">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

Invert Effect
Invert effect is used to map the colors of the object to their opposite values in the color
spectrum, i.e., to create a negative image. The following parameter is used in this filter:

Parameter Description

Invert Maps the colors of the object to their opposite value in the color
spectrum.

Example

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<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: invert">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; Filter: invert">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

Mask Effect
Mask effect is used to turn transparent pixels to a specified color and makes opaque
pixels transparent. The following parameter is used in this filter:

Parameter Description

Color The color that the transparent areas will become.

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Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="FILTER: Chroma(Color =

#000000) Mask(Color=#00FF00)">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; Filter: Mask(Color=#00FF00)">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce following result:

Shadow Filter
Shadow filter is used to create an attenuated shadow in the direction and color specified.
This is a filter that lies in between Dropshadow and Glow. The following parameters can
be used in this filter:

Parameter Description

color The color that you want the shadow to be.

direction The direction of the blur, going clockwise, rounded to 45-degree

increments. The default value is 270 (left).

0 = Top

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45 = Top right

90 = Right

135 = Bottom right

180 = Bottom

225 = Bottom left

270 = Left

315 = Top left

Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="FILTER: Chroma(Color =

#000000) Shadow(Color=#00FF00, Direction=225) ">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; Filter: Shadow(Color=#0000FF, Direction=225)">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

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Wave Effect
Wave effect is used to give the object a sine wave distortion to make it look wavy. The
following parameters can be used in this filter:

Parameter Description

Add A value of 1 adds the original image to the waved image, 0 does not.

Freq The number of waves.

Light The strength of the light on the wave (from 0 to 100).

phase At what degree the sine wave should start (from 0 to 100).

strength The intensity of the wave effect.

Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="FILTER: Chroma(Color =

#000000) Wave(Add=0, Freq=1, LightStrength=10, Phase=220, Strength=10) ">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; Filter: Wave(Add=0, Freq=1, LightStrength=10, Phase=20,
Strength=20)">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

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X-Ray Effect
X-Ray effect grayscales and flattens the color depth. The following parameter is used in
this filter:

Parameter Description

xray Grayscales and flattens the color depth.

Example

<p>Image Example:</p>

<img src="/images/css.gif" alt="CSS Logo" style="Filter: Xray"">

<p>Text Example:</p>

<div style="width: 357; height: 50; font-size: 30pt; font-family: Arial Black;
color: red; style="Filter: Xray">CSS Tutorials</div>

It will produce the following result:

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27. CSS ─ Media Types

One of the most important features of style sheets is that they specify how a document
is to be presented on different media: on the screen, on paper, with a speech
synthesizer, with a braille device, etc.

We have currently two ways to specify media dependencies for style sheets:

 Specify the target medium from a style sheet with the @media or @import at-
rules.

 Specify the target medium within the document language.

The @media rule

The @media rule specifies the target media types (separated by commas) of a set of
rules.

Given below is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
@media print {
body { font-size: 10pt }
}
@media screen {
body { font-size: 12pt }
}
@media screen, print {
body { line-height: 1.2 }
}
-->
</style>

The Document Language

In HTML 4.0, the media attribute on the LINK element specifies the target media of an
external style sheet.

Following is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">

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<!--
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0//en">
<html>
<head>
<title>link to a target medium</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
media="print, handheld" href="foo.css">
</head>
<body>
<p>the body...
</body>
</html>
-->
</style>

Recognized Media Types

The names chosen for CSS media types reflect target devices for which the relevant
properties make sense. They give a sense of what device the media type is meant to
refer to. Given below is a list of various media types:

Value Description

all Suitable for all devices.

aural Intended for speech synthesizers.

braille Intended for braille tactile feedback devices.

embossed Intended for paged braille printers.

handheld Intended for handheld devices (typically small screen, monochrome,

limited bandwidth).

print Intended for paged, opaque material and for documents viewed on screen
in print preview mode. Please consult the section on paged media.

projection Intended for projected presentations, for example projectors or print to

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transparencies. Please consult the section on paged media.

screen Intended primarily for color computer screens.

tty Intended for media using a fixed-pitch character grid, such as teletypes,
terminals, or portable devices with limited display capabilities.

tv Intended for television-type devices.

NOTE: Media type names are case-insensitive.

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28. CSS ─ Paged Media

Paged media differ from continuous media in that the content of the document is split
into one or more discrete pages. Paged media includes paper, transparencies, pages that
are displayed on computer screens, etc.

The CSS2 standard introduces some basic pagination control features that let authors
help the browser figure out how to best print their documents.

The CSS2 page model specifies how a document is formatted within a rectangular area -
- the page box -- that has a finite width and height. These features fall into two groups:

 CSS2 features that define a particular page layout.

 CSS2 features that control the pagination of a document.

Defining Pages: The @page Rule

The CSS2 defines a "page box", a box of finite dimensions, in which content is rendered.
The page box is a rectangular region that contains two areas:

 The page area: The page area includes the boxes laid out on that page. The
edges of the page area act as the initial containing block for layout that occurs
between page breaks.

 The margin area: It surrounds the page area.

You can specify the dimensions, orientation, margins, etc., of a page box within an
@page rule. The dimensions of the page box are set with the 'size' property. The
dimensions of the page area are the dimensions of the page box minus the margin area.

For example, the following @page rule sets the page box size to 8.5 x 11 inches and
creates '2cm' margin on all sides between the page box edge and the page area:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page { size:8.5in 11in; margin: 2cm }
-->
</style>

You can use the margin, margin-top, margin-bottom, margin-left, and margin-right
properties within the @page rule to set margins for your page.

Finally, the marks property is used within the @page rule to create crop and registration
marks outside the page box on the target sheet. By default, no marks are printed. You
may use one or both of the crop and cross keywords to create crop marks and
registration marks, respectively, on the target print page.

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Setting Page Size

The size property specifies the size and orientation of a page box. There are four values,
which can be used for page size:

 auto: The page box will be set to the size and orientation of the target sheet.

 landscape: Overrides the target's orientation. The page box is of the same size
as the target, and the longer sides are horizontal.

 portrait: Overrides the target's orientation. The page box is the same size as the
target, and the shorter sides are horizontal.

 length: Length values for the 'size' property create an absolute page box. If only
one length value is specified, it sets both the width and height of the page box.
Percentage values are not allowed for the 'size' property.

In the following example, the outer edges of the page box will align with the target. The
percentage value on the 'margin' property is relative to the target size so if the target
sheet dimensions are 21.0cm x 29.7cm (i.e., A4), the margins are 2.10cm and 2.97cm.

<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page {
size: auto; /* auto is the initial value */
margin: 10%;
}
-->
</style>

The following example sets the width of the page box to be 8.5 inches and the height to
be 11 inches. The page box in this example requires a target sheet size of 8.5"x11" or
larger.

<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page {
size: 8.5in 11in; /* width height */
}
-->
</style>

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Once you create a named page layout, you can use it in your document by adding the
page property to a style that is later applied to an element in your document. For
example, this style renders all the tables in your document on landscape pages:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page { size : portrait }
@page rotated { size : landscape }
table { page : rotated }
-->
</style>

Due to the above rule, while printing, if the browser encounters a <table> element in
your document and the current page layout is the default portrait layout, it starts a new
page and prints the table on a landscape page.

Left, Right, and First Pages

When printing double-sided documents, the page boxes on left and right pages should
be different. It can be expressed through two CSS pseudo-classes as follows:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page :left {
margin-left: 4cm;
margin-right: 3cm;
}

@page :right {
margin-left: 3cm;
margin-right: 4cm;
}
-->
</style>

You can specify the style for the first page of a document with the :first pseudo-class:
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<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page { margin: 2cm } /* All margins set to 2cm */

@page :first {
margin-top: 10cm /* Top margin on first page 10cm */
}
-->
</style>

Controlling Pagination
Unless you specify otherwise, page breaks occur only when the page format changes or
when the content overflows the current page box. To otherwise force or suppress page
breaks, use the page-break-before, page-break-after, and page-break-inside properties.

Both page-break-before and page-break-after accept the auto, always, avoid,

left, and right keywords.

The keyword auto is the default, it lets the browser generate page breaks as needed. The
keyword always forces a page break before or after the element, while avoid suppresses
a page break immediately before or after the element. The left and right keywords force
one or two page breaks, so that the element is rendered on a left-hand or right-hand
page.

Using pagination properties is quite straightforward. Suppose your document has level-1
headers to start new chapters with level-2 headers to denote sections. You'd like each
chapter to start on a new, right-hand page, but you don't want section headers to be
split across a page break from the subsequent content. You can achieve this using the
following rule:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
h1 { page-break-before : right }
h2 { page-break-after : avoid }
-->
</style>

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Use only the auto and avoid values with the page-break-inside property. If you prefer
that your tables are not be broken across pages if possible, you would write the rule as
follows:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
table { page-break-inside : avoid }
-->
</style>

Controlling Widows and Orphans

In typographic lingo, orphans are those lines of a paragraph that are stranded at the
bottom of a page due to a page break, while widows are those lines remaining at the top
of a page following a page break. Generally, printed pages do not look attractive with
single lines of text stranded at the top or bottom. Most printers try to leave at least two
or more lines of text at the top or bottom of each page.

 The orphans property specifies the minimum number of lines of a paragraph that
must be left at the bottom of a page.

 The widows property specifies the minimum number of lines of a paragraph that
must be left at the top of a page.

Here is an example to create 4 lines at the bottom and 3 lines at the top of each page:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page{orphans:4; widows:2;}
-->
</style>

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29. CSS ─ Aural Media

A web document can be rendered by a speech synthesizer. CSS2 allows you to attach
specific sound style features to specific document elements.

Aural rendering of documents is mainly used by the visually impaired. Some of the
situations in which a document can be accessed by means of aural rendering rather than
visual rendering are the following.

 Learning to read

 Training

 Web access in vehicles

 Home entertainment

 Industrial documentation

 Medical documentation

When using aural properties, the canvas consists of a three-dimensional physical space
(sound surrounds) and a temporal space (one may specify sounds before, during, and
after other sounds).

The CSS properties also allow you to vary the quality of synthesized speech (voice type,
frequency, inflection, etc.).

Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
voice-family: paul;
stress: 20;
richness: 90;
cue-before: url("ping.au")
}
p.heidi { azimuth: center-left }
p.peter { azimuth: right }
-->
</style>

It will direct the speech synthesizer to speak headers in a voice (a kind of audio font)
called "paul", on a flat tone, but in a very rich voice. Before speaking the headers, a
sound sample will be played from the given URL.

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Paragraphs with class ‘heidi’ will appear to come from front left (if the sound system is
capable of spatial audio), and paragraphs of class ‘peter’ from the right.

Now we will see the various properties related to aural media.

 The azimuth property sets, where the sound should come from horizontally.

 The elevation property sets, where the sound should come from vertically.

 The cue-after specifies a sound to be played after speaking an element's content

to delimit it from other.

 The cue-before specifies a sound to be played before speaking an element's

content to delimit it from other.

 The cue is a shorthand for setting cue-before and cue-after.

 The pause-after specifies a pause to be observed after speaking an element's

content.

 The pause-before specifies a pause to be observed before speaking an element's

content.

 The pause is a shorthand for setting pause-before and pause-after.

 The pitch specifies the average pitch (a frequency) of the speaking voice.

 The pitch-range specifies the variation in average pitch.

 The play-during specifies a sound to be played as a background, while an

element's content is spoken.

 The richness specifies the richness, or brightness, of the speaking voice.

 The speak specifies whether the text will be rendered aurally and if so, in what
manner.

 The speak-numeral controls how numerals are spoken.

 The speak-punctuation specifies how punctuation is spoken.

 The speech-rate specifies the speaking rate.

 The stress specifies the height of "local peaks" in the intonation contour of a
voice.

 The voice-family specifies the prioritized list of voice family names.

 The volume refers to the median volume of the voice.

The azimuth Property

The azimuth property sets where the sound should come from horizontally. The possible
values are listed below:

 angle: Position is described in terms of an angle within the range -360deg to

360deg. The value 0deg means directly ahead in the center of the sound
stage.90deg is to the right, 180deg behind, and 270deg (or, equivalently and
more conveniently, -90deg) to the left.

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 left-side: Same as '270deg'. With 'behind', '270deg'.

 far-left: Same as '300deg'. With 'behind', '240deg'.

 left: Same as '320deg'. With 'behind', '220deg'.

 center-left: Same as '340deg'. With 'behind', '200deg'.

 center: Same as '0deg'. With 'behind', '180deg'.

 center-right: Same as '20deg'. With 'behind', '160deg'.

 right: Same as '40deg'. With 'behind', '140deg'.

 far-right: Same as '60deg'. With 'behind', '120deg'.

 right-side: Same as '90deg'. With 'behind', '90deg'.

 leftwards: Moves the sound to the left and relative to the current angle. More
precisely, subtracts 20 degrees.

 rightwards: Moves the sound to the right, relative to the current angle. More
precisely, adds 20 degrees.

Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
h1 { azimuth: 30deg }
td.a { azimuth: far-right } /* 60deg */
#12 { azimuth: behind far-right } /* 120deg */
p.comment { azimuth: behind } /* 180deg */
-->
</style>

The elevation Property

The elevation property sets where the sound should come from vertically. The possible
values are as follows:

 angle: Specifies the elevation as an angle, between -

90deg and 90deg. 0deg means on the forward horizon, which loosely means level
with the listener. 90deg means directly overhead and -90deg means directly
below.

 below: Same as '-90deg'.

 level: Same as '0deg'.

 above: Same as '90deg'.

 higher: Adds 10 degrees to the current elevation.

 lower: Subtracts 10 degrees from the current elevation.

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Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
h1 { elevation: above }
tr.a { elevation: 60deg }
tr.b { elevation: 30deg }
tr.c { elevation: level }
-->
</style>

The cue-after Property

The cue-after property specifies a sound to be played after speaking an element's
content to delimit it from other. The possible values include:

 url: The URL of a sound file to be played.

 none: Nothing has to be played.

Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
a {cue-after: url("dong.wav");}
h1 {cue-after: url("pop.au"); }
-->
</style>

The cue-before Property

This property specifies a sound to be played before speaking an element's content to
delimit it from other. The possible values include:

 url: The URL of a sound file to be played.

 none: Nothing has to be played.

Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
a {cue-before: url("bell.aiff");}
h1 {cue-before: url("pop.au"); }

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-->
</style>

The cue Property

The cue property is a shorthand for setting cue-before and cue-after. If two values are
given, the first value is cue-before and the second is cue-after. If only one value is given,
it applies to both properties.

For example, the following two rules are equivalent:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
h1 {cue-before: url("pop.au"); cue-after: url("pop.au") }
h1 {cue: url("pop.au") }
-->
</style>

The pause-after Property

This property specifies a pause to be observed after speaking an element's content. The
possible values are:

 time: Expresses the pause in absolute time units (seconds and milliseconds).

 percentage: Refers to the inverse of the value of the speech-rate property. For
example, if the speech-rate is 120 words per minute (i.e., a word takes half a
second, or 500ms), then a pause-after of 100% means a pause of 500 ms and a
pause-after of 20% means 100ms.

The pause-before Property

This property specifies a pause to be observed before speaking an element's content.
The possible values are:

 time: Expresses the pause in absolute time units (seconds and milliseconds).

 percentage: Refers to the inverse of the value of the speech-rate property. For
example, if the speech-rate is 120 words per minute (i.e., a word takes half a
second, or 500ms), then a pause-before of 100% means a pause of 500 ms and a
pause-before of 20% means 100ms.

The pause Property

This property is a shorthand for setting pause-before and pause-after. If two values are
given, the first value is pause-before and the second is pause-after.

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Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
/* pause-before: 20ms; pause-after: 20ms */
h1 { pause : 20ms }
/* pause-before: 30ms; pause-after: 40ms */
h2{ pause : 30ms 40ms }
/* pause-before: ?; pause-after: 10ms */
h3 { pause-after : 10ms }
-->
</style>

The pitch Property

This property specifies the average pitch (a frequency) of the speaking voice. The
average pitch of a voice depends on the voice family. For example, the average pitch for
a standard male voice is around 120Hz, but for a female voice, it's around 210Hz. The
possible values are:

 frequency: Specifies the average pitch of the speaking voice in hertz (Hz).

 x-low, low, medium, high, x-high: These values do not map to absolute
frequencies, since these values depend on the voice family.

The pitch-range Property

This property specifies variation in average pitch. The possible values are:

 number: A value between '0' and '100'. A pitch range of '0' produces a flat,
monotonic voice. A pitch range of 50 produces normal inflection. Pitch ranges
greater than 50 produce animated voices.

The play-during Property

This property specifies a sound to be played as a background while an element's content
is spoken. Possible values could be any of the followings:

 URI: The sound designated by this <uri> is played as a background while the
element's content is spoken.

 mix: When present, this keyword means that the sound inherited from the parent
element's play-during property continues to play and the sound designated by the
uri is mixed with it. If mix is not specified, the element's background sound
replaces the parent's.

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 repeat: When present, this keyword means that the sound will repeat if it is too
short to fill the entire duration of the element. Otherwise, the sound plays once
and then stops.

 auto: The sound of the parent element continues to play.

 none: This keyword means that there is silence.

Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
blockquote.sad { play-during: url("violins.aiff") }
blockquote q { play-during: url("harp.wav") mix }
span.quiet { play-during: none }
-->
</style>

The richness Property

This property specifies the richness or brightness of the speaking voice. The possible
values are:

 number: A value between '0' and '100'. The higher the value, the more the voice
will carry. A lower value will produce a soft, mellifluous voice.

The speak Property

This property specifies whether the text will be rendered aurally and if so, in what
manner. The possible values are:

 none: Suppresses aural rendering so that the element requires no time to

render.

 normal: Uses language-dependent pronunciation rules for rendering an element

and its children.

 spell-out: Spells the text one letter at a time.

Note the difference between an element whose 'volume' property has a value of 'silent'
and an element whose 'speak' property has the value 'none'. The former takes up the
same time as if it had been spoken, including any pause before and after the element,
but no sound is generated. The latter requires no time and is not rendered.

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The speak-numeral Property

This property controls how numerals are spoken. The possible values are:

 digits: Speak the numeral as individual digits. Thus, "237" is spoken "Two Three
Seven".

 continuous: Speak the numeral as a full number. Thus, "237" is spoken "Two
hundred thirty seven". Word representations are language-dependent.

The speak-punctuation Property

This property specifies how punctuation is spoken. The possible values are:

 code: Punctuation such as semicolons, braces, and so on are to be spoken

literally.

 none: Punctuation is not to be spoken, but instead rendered naturally as various

pauses.

The speech-rate Property

This property specifies the speaking rate. Note that both absolute and relative keyword
values are allowed. The possible values are:

 number: Specifies the speaking rate in words per minute.

 x-slow: Same as 80 words per minute.

 slow: Same as 120 words per minute .

 medium: Same as 180 - 200 words per minute.

 fast: Same as 300 words per minute.

 x-fast: Same as 500 words per minute.

 faster: Adds 40 words per minute to the current speech rate.

 slower: Subtracts 40 words per minutes from the current speech rate.

The stress Property

This property specifies the height of "local peaks" in the intonation contour of a voice.
English is a stressed language, and different parts of a sentence are assigned primary,
secondary, or tertiary stress. The possible values are:

 number: A value between '0' and '100'. The meaning of values depends on the
language being spoken. For example, a level of '50' for a standard, English-
speaking male voice (average pitch = 122Hz), speaking with normal intonation
and emphasis would have a different meaning than '50' for an Italian voice.

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The voice-family Property

The value is a comma-separated, prioritized list of voice family names. It can have the
following values:

 generic-voice: Values are voice families. Possible values are 'male', 'female',
and 'child'.

 specific-voice: Values are specific instances (e.g., comedian, trinoids, carlos,

lani).

Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
h1 { voice-family: announcer, male }
p.part.romeo { voice-family: romeo, male }
p.part.juliet { voice-family: juliet, female }
-->
</style>

The volume Property

Volume refers to the median volume of the voice. It can have the following values:

 numbers: Any number between '0' and '100'. '0' represents the minimum
audible volume level and 100 corresponds to the maximum comfortable level.

 percentage: These values are calculated relative to the inherited value, and are
then clipped to the range '0' to '100'.

 silent: No sound at all. The value '0' does not mean the same as 'silent'.

 x-soft: Same as '0'.

 soft: Same as '25'.

 medium: Same as '50'.

 loud: Same as '75'.

 x-loud: Same as '100'.

Here is an example:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
P.goat { volume: x-soft }
-->
</style>

Paragraphs with class goat will be very soft.

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30. CSS ─ Printing

You can use CSS to change the appearance of your web page when it is printed on a
paper. You can specify one font for the screen version and another for the print version.

You have seen @media rule in the previous chapters. This rule allows you to specify
different styles for different media. So, you can define different rules for a screen and a
printer.

The following example specifies different font families for screen and printer. The next
CSS uses the same font size for both screen as well as printer.

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
@media screen
{
p.bodyText {font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;}
}

@media print
{
p.bodyText {font-family:georgia, times, serif;}
}
@media screen, print
{
p.bodyText {font-size:10pt}
}
-->
</style>

If you are defining your style sheet in a separate file, then you can also use the media
attribute when linking to an external style sheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"

media="print" href="mystyle.css">

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31. CSS ─ Layouts

Hope you are very comfortable with HTML tables and you are efficient in designing page
layouts using HTML Tables. But you know CSS too provides plenty of controls for
positioning elements in a document. Since CSS is the wave of the future, why not learn
and use CSS instead of tables for page layout purposes?

The following list collects a few pros and cons of both the technologies:

 Most browsers support tables, while CSS support is being slowly adopted.

 Tables are more forgiving when the browser window size changes - morphing
their content and wrapping to accommodate the changes accordingly. CSS
positioning tends to be exact and fairly inflexible.

 Tables are much easier to learn and manipulate than CSS rules.

But each of these arguments can be reversed:

 CSS is pivotal to the future of Web documents and will be supported by most
browsers.

 CSS is more exact than tables, allowing your document to be viewed as you
intended, regardless of the browser window.

 Keeping track of nested tables can be a real pain. CSS rules tend to be well
organized, easily read, and easily changed.

Finally, we would suggest you to use whichever technology makes sense to you and use
what you know or what presents your documents in the best way.

CSS also provides table-layout property to make your tables load much faster. Following
is an example:

<table style="table-layout:fixed;width:600px;">
<tr height="30">
<td width="150">CSS table layout cell 1</td>
<td width="200">CSS table layout cell 2</td>
<td width="250">CSS table layout cell 3</td>
</tr>
</table>

You will notice the benefits more on large tables. With traditional HTML, the browser had
to calculate every cell before finally rendering the table. When you set the table-layout
algorithm to fixed, however, it only needs to look at the first row before rendering the
whole table. It means your table will need to have fixed column widths and row heights.

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Sample Column Layout

Here are the steps to create a simple Column Layout using CSS:

Set the margin and padding of the complete document as follows:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin:9px 9px 0 9px;
padding:0;
background:#FFF;
}
-->
</style>

Now, we will define a column with yellow color and later, we will attach this rule to a
<div>:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
#level0 {
background:#FC0;
}
-->
</style>

Up to this point, we will have a document with yellow body, so let us now define another
division inside level0:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
#level1 {
margin-left:143px;
padding-left:9px;
background:#FFF;
}
-->
</style>

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Now, we will nest one more division inside level1, and we will change just the
background color:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
#level2 {
background:#FFF3AC;
}
-->
</style>

Finally, we will use the same technique, nest a level3 division inside level2 to get the
visual layout for the right column:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
#level3 {
margin-right:143px;
padding-right:9px;
background:#FFF;
}
#main {
background:#CCC;
}
-->
</style>

Complete the source code as follows:

<style tyle="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin:9px 9px 0 9px;
padding:0;
background:#FFF;}
#level0 {
background:#FC0;}
#level1 {
margin-left:143px;
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padding-left:9px;
background:#FFF;}
#level2 {
background:#FFF3AC;}
#level3 {
margin-right:143px;
padding-right:9px;
background:#FFF;}
#main {
background:#CCC;}
-->
</style>
<body>
<div id="level0">
<div id="level1">
<div id="level2">
<div id="level3">
<div id="main">
Final Content goes here...
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>

Similarly, you can add a top navigation bar or an ad bar at the top of the page.

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32. CSS ─ Validations

Validation is the process of checking something against a rule. When you are a beginner,
it is very common that you will commit many mistakes in writing your CSS rules. How
you will make sure whatever you have written is 100% accurate and up to the W3
quality standards?

If you use CSS, your code needs to be correct. Improper code may cause unexpected
results in how your page looks or functions.

But if you want to validate your CSS style sheet embedded in an (X)HTML document,
you should first check that the (X)HTML you use is valid.

Tool to check the validity of (X)HTML document: Validate (X)HTML document.

You can use the following tools to check the validity of your CSS.

W3C CSS Validator (World Wide Web Consortium) This validator

checks your CSS by either file upload, direct input, or using URI -
one page at a time. This validator helps you to locate all the errors in
your CSS.

The WDG CSS check validator, lets you validate your CSS by direct
input, file upload, and using URI. Errors will be listed by line and
column numbers if you have any. Errors usually come with links to
explain the reason of error.

A CSS validator checks your Cascading Style Sheets to make sure they comply with the
CSS standards set by the W3 Consortium. There are a few validators which will also tell
you which CSS features are supported by which browsers (since not all browsers are
equal in their CSS implementation).

Why Validate Your HTML Code?

There are a number of reasons why you should validate your code. But major ones are:

 It helps cross-browser, cross-platform, and future compatibility.

 A good quality website increases search engine visibility.

 Professionalism: As a web developer, your code should not raise errors while it is
being used by visitors.

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33. CSS2 Reference Guide

This is a complete reference guide for web developers where we have listed all the CSS
properties defined in the World Wide Web Consortium's Recommended Specification for
Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2.

 Aural
 Background
 Border
 Classification
 Dimension
 Font
 Generated Content
 List and Marker
 Margin
 Outlines
 Padding
 Positioning
 Table
 Text
 Print
 Pseudo-classes
 Pseudo-elements

Click any property to see its description with examples:

Property Description

Describes the position of a sound source along the horizontal axis

azimuth
of the listener's environment.

Composite property for the following properties:

background-attachment

background-color
background
background-image

background-position

background-repeat

background- Determines if the background image is fixed in the window or

attachment scrolls as the document scrolls

background-color Sets the background color of an element

background-image Sets the background image of an element

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Sets the initial position of the element's background image, if

background-
specified; values normally are paired to provide x, y positions;
position
default position is 0% 0%.

background- Determines how the background image is repeated (tiled) across

repeat an element

Sets all four of an element's borders; value is one or more of a

border
color, a value for border-width, and a value for border-style

Sets an element's bottom border; value is one or more of a color,

border-bottom
a value for border-bottom-width, and a value for border-style

border-bottom-
Sets the thickness of an element's bottom border.
width

border-collapse Sets the table border rendering algorithm

Sets the color of all four of an element's borders; default is the

border-color
color of the element

Sets the color of an element's left borders; default is the color of

border-left-color
the element

Sets the color of an element's right borders; default is the color of

border-right-color
the element

Sets the color of an element's top borders; default is the color of

border-top-color
the element

border-bottom- Sets the color of an element's bottom borders; default is the color
color of the element

Sets an element's left border; value is one or more of a color, a

border-left
value for border-left-width, and a value for border-style.

border-left-width Sets the thickness of an element's left border

Sets an element's right border; value is one or more of a color, a

border-right
value for border-right-width, and a value for border-style.

border-right-width Sets the thickness of an element's right border

With separate borders set the spacing between borders. One

border-spacing value sets vertical and horizontal spacing and two values sets
horizontal and vertical spacing respectively.

border-style Sets the style of all four of an element's borders

Sets an element's top border; value is one or more of a color, a

border-top
value for border-top-width, and a value for border-style

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border-top-width Sets the thickness of an element's top border.

border-width Sets the thickness of all four of an element's borders

Used with the position property to place the bottom edge of an

bottom
element

caption-side Sets the position for a table caption

Sets which margins of an element must not be adjacent to a

clear floating element; the element is moved down until that margin is
clear

clip Sets the clipping mask for an element

color Sets the color of an element

content Inserts generated content around an element.

Increments a counter by 1; value is a list of counter names, with

counter-increment each name optionally followed by a value by which it is
incremented.

Resets a counter to zero; value is a list of counter names, with

counter-reset
each name optionally followed by a value to which it is reset.

cue-after Plays the designated sound after an element is spoken

cue-before Plays the designated sound before an element is spoken

cursor Defines the shape of the cursor

direction Defines direction of the flow of an element content

display Controls how an element is displayed

elevation Sets the height at which a sound is played

empty-cells With separate borders, hides empty cells in a table

Determines if an element floats to the left or right, allowing text

float
to wrap around it or be displayed inline

Sets all the font attributes for an element. Value is any of the
values for:

font font-style

font-variant

font-weight

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font-size

line-height

font-family

Defines the font for an element, either as a specific font or as one

font-family
of the generic serif, sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, and monospace.

font-size Defines the font size

font-size-adjust Adjusts the current font's aspect ratio

font-stretch Determines the amount to stretch the current font

Defines the style of the face, either normal or some type of

font-style
slanted style

font-variant Defines a font to be in small caps

Defines the font weight. if a number is used, it must be a multiple

font-weight of 100 between 100 and 900; 400 is normal, 700 is the same as
the keyword bold

height Defines the height of an element

Used with the position property to place the left edge of an

left
element

letter-spacing Inserts additional space between text characters

line-height Sets the distance between adjacent text baselines

Defines list-related styles using any of the values for:

list-style-image
list-style
liststyle-position

list-style-type

Defines an image to be used as a list item's marker, in lieu of the

list-style-image value for:

list-style-type

Indents or extends (default) a list item's marker with respect to

list-style-position
the item's content

Defines a list item's marker either for unordered lists (circle, disc,
list-style-type or square) or for ordered lists (decimal, loweralpha, lower-roman,
none, upper-alpha, or upper-roman)

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margin Defines all four of an element's margins

margin-bottom Defines the bottom margin of an element. Default value is 0.

margin-left Defines the left margin of an element. Default value is 0.

margin-right Defines the right margin of an element. Default value is 0.

margin-top Defines the top margin of an element. Default value is 0.

The marker-offset property can be used in bulleted lists for

marker-offset specifying the distance between the nearest border edges of a
marker box (or bullet) and its associated principal box.

The marks property is used to set crop marks and cross marks on
marks
paged media. This is used with the @page rule.

max-height property is used to constrain the height of an

max-height
element.

max-width property is used to set the maximum width of an

max-width
element.

min-height min-height property is used to constrain the height of an element.

min-width min-width property is used to constrain the width of an element.

Sets the minimum number of lines allowed in an orphaned

orphans
paragraph fragment

The outline property is a shorthand property to specify all outline

outline
properties.

The outline-color property is used to specify the color of the

outline-color outline. Note that, unlike the border property, outline does not
take up extra space and it can be non-rectangular.

The outline-style property is used to specify the style of the

outline-color-style outline. Note that, unlike the border property, outline does not
take up extra space and it can be non-rectangular.

The outline-color property is used to specify the color of the

outline-width outline. Note that, unlike the border property, outline does not
take up extra space and it can be non-rectangular.

overflow Determines how overflow content is rendered

padding Defines all four padding amounts around an element

padding-bottom Defines the bottom padding of an element. Default value is 0

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padding-left Defines the left padding of an element. Default value is 0

padding-right Defines the right padding of an element. Default value is 0

padding-top Defines the top padding of an element. Default value is 0

page Associates a named page layout with an element

page-break-after Forces or suppresses page breaks after an element.

page-break-before Forces or suppresses page breaks before an element.

page-break-inside Suppresses page breaks within an element

The pause property is CSS shorthand for specifying shorthand

pause
property for specifying pauses in aural media.

pause-after Pauses a media after speaking an element

pause-before Pauses a media before speaking an element

pitch Sets the average pitch of an element's spoken content

Sets the range of the pitch, from 0 (flat) to 100 (broad); default
pitch-range
is 50

If a URL is provided, it is played during an element's spoken

play-during content, specifying repeat loops the audio; mix causes it to mix
with, rather than replace, other background audio.

position Sets the positioning model for an element

quotes Sets the quote symbols used to quote text

Sets the richness of the voice, from 0 (flat) to 100 (mellifluous);

richness
default is 50

Used with the position property to place the right edge of an

right
element.

The size property is used in paged media to specify the size of the
size
page.

speak Determines how an element's content is spoken.

Determines if table headers are spoken once for each row or

speak-header
column or each time a cell is spoken.

speak-numeral Determines how numerals are spoken

speak-punctuation Determines if punctuation is spoken or used for inflection

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Sets the rate of speech; a number sets the rate in words per
speech-rate
minute

Sets the stress of the voice, from 0 (catatonic) to 100

stress
(hyperactive); default is 50.

table-layout Determines the table-rendering algorithm

text-align Sets the text alignment style for an element

text-decoration Defines any decoration for the text; values may be combined

Defines the indentation of the first line of text in an element;

text-indent
default is 0

text-shadow Creates text drop shadows of varying colors and offsets

text-transform Transforms the text in the element accordingly

Used with the position property to place the top edge of an

top
element.

vertical-align Sets the vertical positioning of an element

visibility Determines if an element is visible in the document or table

voice-family Selects a named voice family to speak an element's content

Sets the volume of spoken content; numeric values range from 0

volume
to 100

white-space Defines how whitespace within an element is handled

Sets the minimum number of lines allowed in a widowed

widows
paragraph fragment

width Defines the width of an element

word-spacing Inserts additional space between words

z-index Sets the rendering layer for the current element.

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Pseudo-classes & Pseudo-elements

Property Description

:active Use this class to add special effect to an activated element

Use this class to add special effect to an element while the element
:focus
has focus

Use this class to add special effect to an element when you mouse
:hover
over it

:link Use this class to add special effect to an unvisited link

:visited Use this class to add special effect to a visited link

Use this class to add special effect to an element that is the first
:first-child
child of some other element.

:lang Use this class to specify a language to use in a specified element

:first-letter Use this element to add special effect to the first letter of a text

:first-line Use this element to add special effect to the first line of a text

:before Use this element to insert some content before an element

:after Use this element to insert some content after an element

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34. Color References

The following table shows the 16 color names that were introduced in HTML 3.2, to
support the 16 colors that 8-bit graphics cards offered. Same set of color can be used in
CSS:

Color Name Hex Value Color Show

aqua #00ffff Demo

black #000000 Demo

blue #0000ff Demo

fuchsia #ff00ff Demo

green #008000 Demo

gray #808080 Demo

lime #00ff00 Demo

maroon #800000 Demo

navy #000080 Demo

olive #808000 Demo

purple #800080 Demo

red #ff0000 Demo

silver #c0c0c0 Demo

teal #008080 Demo

white #ffffff Demo

yellow #ffff00 Demo

There are other colors, which are not part of HTML or XHTML but they are supported by
most of the versions of IE or Netscape. These color names can be used in CSS as well.

Color Name Hex Value Color Show

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aliceblue #f0f8ff Demo

antiquewhite #faebd7 Demo

aquamarine #7fffd4 Demo

azure #f0ffff Demo

beige #f5f5dc Demo

bisque #ffe4c4 Demo

blanchedalmond #ffebcd Demo

blueviolet #8a2be2 Demo

brown #a52a2a Demo

burlywood #deb887 Demo

cadetblue #5f9ea0 Demo

chartreuse #7fff00 Demo

chocolate #d2691e Demo

coral #ff7f50 Demo

cornflowerblue #6495ed Demo

cornsilk #fff8dc Demo

crimson #dc143c Demo

cyan #00ffff Demo

darkblue #00008b Demo

darkcyan #008b8b Demo

darkgoldenrod #b8860b Demo

darkgray #a9a9a9 Demo

darkgreen #006400 Demo

darkkhaki #bdb76b Demo

darkmagenta #8b008b Demo

darkolivegreen #556b2f Demo

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darkorange #ff8c00 Demo

darkorchid #9932cc Demo

darkred #8b0000 Demo

darksalmon #e9967a Demo

darkseagreen #8fbc8f Demo

darkslateblue #483d8b Demo

darkslategray #2f4f4f Demo

darkturquoise #00ced1 Demo

darkviolet #9400d3 Demo

deeppink #ff1493 Demo

deepskyblue #00bfff Demo

dimgray #696969 Demo

dodgerblue #1e90ff Demo

firebrick #b22222 Demo

floralwhite #fffaf0 Demo

forestgreen #228b22 Demo

gainsboro #dcdcdc Demo

ghostwhite #f8f8ff Demo

gold #ffd700 Demo

goldenrod #daa520 Demo

gray #808080 Demo

greenyellow #adff2f Demo

honeydew #f0fff0 Demo

hotpink #ff69b4 Demo

indianred #cd5c5c Demo

indigo #4b0082 Demo

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ivory #fffff0 Demo

khaki #f0e68c Demo

lavender #e6e6fa Demo

lavenderblush #fff0f5 Demo

lawngreen #7cfc00 Demo

lemonchiffon #fffacd Demo

lightblue #add8e6 Demo

lightcoral #f08080 Demo

lightcyan #e0ffff Demo

lightgoldenrodyellow #fafad2 Demo

lightgreen #90ee90 Demo

lightgrey #d3d3d3 Demo

lightpink #ffb6c1 Demo

lightsalmon #ffa07a Demo

lightseagreen #20b2aa Demo

lightskyblue #87cefa Demo

lightslategray #778899 Demo

lightsteelblue #b0c4de Demo

lightyellow #ffffe0 Demo

limegreen #32cd32 Demo

linen #faf0e6 Demo

magenta #ff00ff Demo

mediumblue #0000cd Demo

mediumorchid #ba55d3 Demo

mediumpurple #9370db Demo

midnightblue #191970 Demo

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mistyrose #ffe4e1 Demo

moccasin #ffe4b5 Demo

oldlace #fdf5e6 Demo

orange #ffa500 Demo

orchid #da70d6 Demo

peachpuff #ffdab9 Demo

peru #cd853f Demo

pink #ffc0cb Demo

plum #dda0dd Demo

purple #800080 Demo

rosybrown #bc8f8f Demo

royalblue #4169e1 Demo

salmon #fa8072 Demo

sandybrown #f4a460 Demo

seagreen #2e8b57 Demo

sienna #a0522d Demo

skyblue #87ceeb Demo

slateblue #6a5acd Demo

steelblue #4682b4 Demo

tan #d2b48c Demo

thistle #d8bfd8 Demo

tomato #ff6347 Demo

violet #ee82ee Demo

wheat #f5deb3 Demo

whitesmoke #f5f5f5 Demo

yellow #ffff00 Demo

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yellowgreen #9acd32 Demo

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