css : The Beginning

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language. It is used to add styling to HTML documents, and can control layout, colors, fonts, and other visual elements on a web page.

Here is a basic tutorial on how to use CSS:

Create an HTML document. This will be the foundation of your web page, and the elements within it will be the ones that you will style using CSS.

Create a CSS document. This can be done by creating a new file and saving it with the .css file extension.

Link the CSS file to your HTML document. To do this, add a link element within the head of your HTML document, and set the href attribute to the location of your CSS file.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">

Select the elements you want to style. In CSS, you can select elements using their tag name, class, or id. For example, to select all paragraph elements, you would use the p selector. To select elements with a specific class, use the class selector (e.g. .class-name) and for specific elements use id selector (#id-name)

Apply styles to the selected elements. Once you have selected the elements you want to style, you can add properties and values to them to change their appearance. For example, to change the text color of all paragraph elements to red, you would use the color property:

p { color: red; }

To target specific elements you can use class and id selectors.

.class-name { color: red; } #id-name { color: blue; }

Add more styles as needed. You can add as many styles as you need to create the desired look for your web page.

Finally, save your files and open your HTML document in a web browser to see the changes.

This is a very basic tutorial on how to use CSS. There are many more advanced features and techniques that can be used to create more complex and dynamic styling for your web pages.