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Html and css help!

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turducken
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because I'm currently crippled with a broken leg, I thought I might learn html and css just for shits an gigs. but i am getting really confused on what css is and how to insert into the html code. Any help/tips/pointers would be very much appreciated and +k for anyone. And also is this css?.... {font-family: Arial; font-size: 40px; color: white; background: teal;} Thank you newschoolers.
Apr 6 2011 12:35AM
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Malcolm
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Yup that's css. It basically changes everything on the page. Here's a tutorial to understand it a little better.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
Apr 6 2011 12:41AM
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eheath
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There are two basic ways to do css, in a separate file or in the html, i think separate is better.
Apr 6 2011 12:41AM
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turducken
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Ah thank you indeed I understand it now. Yeah downloaded a an html and css for dummies book but some bits are a bit vague.
Apr 6 2011 12:42AM
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I.B
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Nononono....


CSS-Cascading syle sheets

That means you link the CSS page to your html page in the header.

I can't think of the code right off the top of my head ( i use dreamweaver so it does it for me)

In your css page your going to do something like this....

#container {
width:750px;
height:1000px;
margin-right:auto;
margin-left:auto;
border:none
}

So once you have that in your styles sheet. go to your HTML sheet and type in





Apr 6 2011 12:43AM
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eheath
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i lold




Also, to link the html to the css you're going to want to use this command and only change where it sats location of css, which if its in the same folder as your html you just have to put "name".css


< link href="location of css here" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />

You need to delete the first space betwen < and link though, i had to put it there so it would show up in the forum.
Apr 6 2011 2:01AM
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eheath
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And this link needs to be in your head, not the body, the part where the meta tags are and shit.
Apr 6 2011 2:02AM
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Arabian.
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Open up your notepad and put these tags in surrounded by < and >

basic html:

html
title
/title
header
/header
body

p
ENTER TEXT HERE.
/p

/body
/html

now save this as NAME.html in a new directory called "public_html" and open it up with your browser. Congratulations, you have created a webpage!!!


It is basically learning what tags you can use to do what you want to do. Now, all you have to do is get some webhosting and you can use that page and make it visible to others. You can use CSS to further hone in the style and layout of your HTML page, but you want to learn HTML and XML (non-descript markup language) first before you get into the more detail oriented CSS, which takes a bit of programming knowledge.
Apr 6 2011 2:08AM
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