Welcome to the CSS Learning Guide!
This repository is designed to help you master Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) — the styling language that brings life and design to web pages.
Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to enhance your existing skills, this guide provides structured resources and examples to help you become proficient in CSS.
- Getting Started
- Basic Concepts
- Intermediate CSS
- Advanced Topics
- CSS Frameworks
- Best Practices
- Resources
- Contributing
- License
- Contact
- Acknowledgments
- Disclaimer
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML.
It defines how elements should be rendered on screen, paper, speech, or other media.
CSS works by selecting HTML elements and applying styles to them.
The "cascading" part refers to how styles can inherit and override each other based on specificity and order.
To begin with CSS, you need:
- Clone or download this repository :
git clone https://github.com/srjingole0610/CSS.git - A text editor (VS Code, Sublime Text, Notepad, etc.)
- A web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.)
- Basic knowledge of HTML
selector {
property: value;
another-property: value;
}- Element selectors:
div,p,h1 - Class selectors:
.class-name - ID selectors:
#id-name - Attribute selectors:
[attribute=value] - Pseudo-classes:
:hover,:focus - Pseudo-elements:
::before,::after
Every element is a rectangular box consisting of:
- Content
- Padding
- Border
- Margin
- Color formats:
hex,RGB,RGBA,HSL - Font properties:
font-family,font-size,font-weight,font-style - Text properties:
text-align,text-decoration,letter-spacing
- Display properties
- Positioning (
static,relative,absolute,fixed) - Floats and clearfix
- Flexbox
- CSS Grid
- Media queries
- Viewport settings
- Fluid layouts
- Mobile-first approach
- Transition properties
- Keyframe animations
- Transform properties
- BEM (Block Element Modifier)
- SMACSS (Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS)
- OOCSS (Object-Oriented CSS)
- Sass / SCSS
- Less
- Stylus
:root {
--primary-color: #3498db;
}
.element {
color: var(--primary-color);
}- Keep your CSS organized
- Use meaningful class names
- Minimize specificity conflicts
- Optimize for performance
- Comment your code
- Follow a consistent naming convention
- Can I Use — Browser compatibility tables
- CSS Validation Service
- CodePen — Test and share CSS snippets
- CSS: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer
- CSS Secrets by Lea Verou
- CSS in Depth by Keith J. Grant
- This project is open source and free to use for educational purposes.
- You can use, modify, and distribute the code for personal or commercial purposes.
- Attribution is not required, but it would be appreciated.
Contributions are welcome! If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, please open an issue or submit a pull request.
For any inquiries or assistance, please contact srjingole0610@gmail.com.
- This project is created for learning purposes and does not represent a complete or production-ready web development environment.
- Special thanks to the open-source community for their contributions and resources.
- This project is inspired by various learning resources and tutorials available online.
- This project is intended for educational purposes only.
- It is not a substitute for professional web development training or resources.
- The code provided in this repository is for demonstrative purposes and may not cover all best practices or real-world scenarios.
- The examples and exercises provided here are not guaranteed to be accurate, complete, or up-to-date.
- Use this project at your own risk and discretion.
Remember, CSS is powerful but takes practice. Don’t get discouraged if something doesn’t work right away — experimentation is key to mastering CSS.