CS47

From Coder Merlin
Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...
— Merlin, The Coder

Intro to CSS[edit]

First off, what does CSS stand for?[edit]

CSS stands for Cascading style sheets, all that means is CSS will allow you to design and make your website unique. An example is changing the background color, or how BIG or small your text is. To do all this we will make a style sheet which is an empty HTML file named Style.css

We can make many CSS changes, but we will start with the basics.

Color[edit]

To start you need to know how to type a color so the computer can read it. All colors are written using a combination of letters and numbers. Here's a picture with some basic colors to help.


While it looks weird at first these will help you immensely. But now we will put it into action. Let's start with the background color. Here's an example:

<syntaxhighlight> body{background-color: #000000} <\syntaxhighlight>