CSS Training Overview
This in-depth CSS training course teaches attendees how to master Cascading Style Sheets to create visually appealing webpages using the latest CSS3 techniques for formatting text, laying out pages, adding transitions and animations, incorporating best practices, and more.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Style elements using the new selectors, pseudo classes, and pseudo elements
- Use font and text effects, including @font-face
- Use the new gradient, mask, and background image techniques
- Implement animations, transitions, and 2D and 3D transforms
- Render content appropriately for mobile and tablet devices using media queries
- Understand vendor-specific prefixes and browser support for various CSS3 techniques
- Incorporate CSS optimization
- Understand CSS rendering and performance
Prerequisites
Prior hands-on experience with HTML and CSS is required.
Outline
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Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- CSS Introduction
- What is CSS?
- CSS Version Numbers and CSS Levels
- Who is responsible for CSS?
- Why should I be writing CSS?
- When was CSS created?
- Where is the official CSS specification?
CSS Syntax
- Introduction to Writing CSS
- CSS @rules
- CSS functions
- CSS Scope
- Critical CSS
- CSS Keywords
Selectors and Specificity
- Introduction to CSS Selectors and Specificity
- Helpful definitions
- Selectors
- Simple selectors
- Combinators
- Compound selectors
- Complex selectors
- The CSS “key”
- CSS Selector types
- Tag or element selectors
- Id Selectors
- Class selectors
- Specificity
- Specificity Hierarchy
- CSS Cascade Rules
- CSS Specificity Rules
- Logically-applied selectors
Feature Detection
- Introduction to Feature Detection
- What is Modernizr?
- CSS Feature Queries
- CSS @supports
- CSS.supports
- Introduction to the CSS box model
- What is the CSS box model?
- CSS border vs. Outline
- Block vs. inline boxes
- CSS Float property
- Setting the box size
- Challenge Exercise: Using the CSS box model
- Z-Index and stacking orders
- CSS logical properties
The CSS Reset
- Introduction to the CSS reset
- Why use a CSS reset?
- Why not use a CSS reset?
CSS Custom Properties
- Introduction to CSS Custom Properties
- What are custom properties?
- How to declare a custom property
- Using a custom property
- Variable types
- Variable use cases
- Variable scope
- Using a custom property
- @property rule
CSS Typography
- Introduction to Typography
- Units of Measurement
- Fixed units of measurement
- Relative units of measurement
- Absolute vs. relative units
- Font Sizes and browser rendering
CSS 3
- Introduction to CSS3
- What is CSS3?
- Understanding the CSS Version numbers and CSS Levels
- CSS3 Transforms
- What is a CSS transform?
- CSS3 2D transforms
- CSS3 3D transforms
- CSS transform: properties and methods
- CSS3 Transitions
- What is a CSS3 transition?
- How do I execute a CSS3 transition?
- CSS3 Animations
- CSS3 3D Animations
CSS Layout
- Introduction to page layout with CSS
- Position property values
- position: static
- position: relative
- position: absolute
- position: fixed
- position: sticky
- CSS display property
- Introduction to the CSS display property
- Hiding elements
- Using the display property for layout
- Using Viewport units for layout
- Introduction to Viewport Units
- Viewport width
- Viewport height
- Viewport minimum and maximum
CSS Flexbox
- Introduction to the display: flex property
- What is a flexbox?
- Creating a flexbox
- The flex layout model
- Flex display properties
- Flex Grow, Shrink, and Basis
CSS Grid Layout
- Introduction to the CSS grid layout
- What is a grid?
- Features of a grid layout
- Grid glossary
- Placing items on the grid
- Grid properties
CSS Multi-Column Layout- Introduction to CSS columns
- Creating multi-column layout
- Column properties
- Column-related design issues
Introduction to CSS Optimization- CSS minification
- CSS color manipulation
- Use resets
- Sort CSS rules
- Write object-oriented CSS
- Make your CSS modular
- Use CSS properties and functions
- Use sprites
- Using an online minifier
- Add vendor prefixes
- Check code quality
- Identify unused CSS
- Use an online CSS beautifier
- CSS code organization
- Code organization tips
- Use a CSS style guide
- Use a CSS preprocessor
- CSS loading techniques
Advanced CSS Optimization
- Writing scalable, efficient, and maintainable CSS
- Naming Conventions
- Semantic CSS
- Formatting CSS
Understanding CSS Rendering and Performance
- Browser rendering and optimization terms
- Rendering stages
- Guided Exercise: Understanding the browser’s rendering stages
- Optimizing CSS
- Optimize selectors
- Remove unused CSS
- Use testing tools
- Avoid unnecessary DOM manipulations
- Use a CDN
- Minimize repaint and reflows
- Paint cycles and compositor layers
- CSS and JavaScript
- More optimization tips
Conclusion
Training Materials
All students receive a copy of Peachpit Press's Practical CSS3: Develop and Design and related courseware.
Software Requirements
- Windows or macOS with at least 8 GB RAM
- 2 or more browsers of your choice (recent versions):
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Edge
- Safari
- Web development tool of your choice (should support CSS syntax highlighting)
