Introducing Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheet Basics Creating Styles Using Styles Manipulating Styles Text Formatting with CSS
Cascading Style Sheet Basics CSS has many benefits: The pages look great and load faster Make updating your site easier With CSS, you can control the properties of the HTML tag Dreamweaver CS4 is better than ever at displaying complex CSS based designs
Internal -External Style Sheets Internal style sheet: new style you create gets added to a style sheet that s stored in the Web page itself. Internal style sheets appear in the <head> portion of a Web page. It contain styles that apply only to that page. It is a good choice when you have a very specific formatting task for a single page.
Internal -External Style Sheets External style sheet: new style you create gets added to a style sheet that s stored in another file. An external style sheet, on the other hand, contains only styles no HTML and you can link it to numerous pages In fact, you can link it to every page on your Web site to provide a uniform
Internal -External Style Sheets You can create both types of style sheets easily in Dreamweaver. A single Web page can have both an external and an internal style sheet. You can even attach multiple external style sheets to a single page.
Types of Styles Styles come in several different types. Class styles: is one that you create, name, and attach manually to text or an HTML tag. Class styles work much like styles in word processing and page layout programs.
Types of Styles ID styles: is a type of style that lets you format a unique item on a page. Use ID styles to identify an object (or an area of a page) that appears only once EX: a Web site s logo, copyright notice, main navigation bar, or a banner Tag style: It applies globally to an individual HTML tag.
Creating Styles Phase 1: Set Up the CSS Type have many ways to create a new style: On the CSS Styles panel, click the new style button, or right-click anywhere in the CSS Styles panel, and then, from the menu that appears, select New Or choose Format ->CSS Styles ->New.
Creating Styles
Creating Styles
Creating Styles Selector Type: Choose the kind of style you wish to create: Class, ID, or Tag. Compound, to create more advanced style types such as pseudo-classes, attribute selectors and descendent selectors.
Creating Styles Selector Name: If you selected Class from the Selector Type menu, then style Class style names must begin with a period.classname If you selected ID style then names begin with a #IDName If you chose Tag instead, then, from the Tag pop-up select the HTML tag you want to redefine.
Creating Styles If you selected the Compound option, then Dreamweaver lets you type any valid CSS selector type in the Selector field. Rule Definition Specifies where the CSS code you create is stored.
Creating Styles This document only: applies only to the current Web page -> internal style sheet. New Style Sheet File: not only creates a new external CSS file but also adds the necessary code in the current document to link it to that file - >external style sheet (saved with the name ends in.css)
Creating Styles Phase 2: Defining the Style The CSS Rule Definition window provides access to all the available formatting for styling text and graphics. The Property inspector s CSS mode lets you quickly create styles for specific text formatting such as choosing a font or a font size
Creating Styles The CSS Rule Definition window
Creating Styles Creating a Style with the Property Inspector
Using Styles Applying a Class Style: Applying a class style to text: Select some words In the Property inspector, select the style name from the class menu or in CSS mode.
Using Styles Applying a Class Style:
Using Styles Applying a Class Style: Applying a class style to objects Select the object. Select tag at the bottom of the document window. Then right click on the tag name and select Set Class-> the Style name.
Using Styles Applying a Class Style: Applying a class style to objects
Using Styles Applying IDs to a Tag: To apply an ID to text: Select the text, and use the ID menu in the HTM mode of the Property inspector. Apply each ID name only once per page, this menu lists only IDs that exist in your style sheet but haven t yet been applied to a tag on the page.
Using Styles Removing a Class Style: To remove a class style from text Select the text. In Property inspector choose None from the Class menu (HTML mode) or <Remove Class> from the Targeted Rule menu (CSS mode).
Using Styles Removing a Class Style To remove a class style from another object (like an image): Select the object, and then, from the Property inspector s Class menu, choose None. Or Format CSS Styles None to remove a style from any selection.
Using Styles Applying IDs to a Tag: For non-text elements: Select the element, and then, in the Property inspector, type the ID name into the ID field. You can also use the Tag selector, use the Set ID menu in the contextual menu that appears when you right-click (Ctrlclick) the tag.
Using Styles To remove an ID From a text element Select the text, and then, from the Property inspector s ID menu, select None. For non-text elements Just select the element, and then, in the Property inspector s ID field, delete the ID name.
Using Styles Linking to an External Style Sheet: Whenever you create an external style sheet, Dreamweaver automatically links it to the current document. To use its styles in a different Web page, you must attach it to the page. On the CSS Styles panel, click the Attach External Style Sheet button
Using Styles In the Attach External Style Sheet window Click Browse. File/URL: Select the CSS (.css) file you wish to attach to the document.
Using Styles If the style sheet you select is outside the current site, Dreamweaver offers to copy the style sheet file into your site s root folder ->click Yes. Add as: two different methods of attaching an external style sheet to a Web page (Link or Import) Media: setting is optional and dictates when the styles from the style sheet are applied
Manipulating Styles Editing Styles: Dreamweaver provides many ways to edit styles: In the CSS Styles panel, select a style, and then click the Edit Style button Double-clicking the name of a style in the CSS panel. In the CSS Styles panel, right-click the name of a style-> choose Edit.
Manipulating Styles Deleting a Style Click the name of the style-> Press delete key, or click Trash icon at the bottom of the panel
Manipulating Styles Renaming a Class Style: On the Property inspector, in the Class menu, choose Rename. From the top menu, choose the name of the style you wish to rename. In the New name box, type the new style name ->OK
Text Formatting with CSS Choosing a Font Applying font formatting: You can use either The Font menu in the Property inspector s CSS mode Or the CSS Rule Definition window s Font-family menu
Text Formatting with CSS Choosing a Font Creating custom font lists: From the Property inspector s Font menu, select Edit Font List, select Format->Font ->Edit Font List. 1) Select a first-choice font from the list of Available fonts, or type in the font name. 2) Add the font to custom font list by clicking the << button
Text Formatting with CSS 3) Your first-choice font appears in the Chosen fonts list. 4) Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each font you wish to include in your custom list
Text Formatting with CSS Changing the Font Size: You can use one of the two way: The Size menu in the Property inspector s CSS mode The CSS Rule Definition window s Fontsize menu
Text Formatting with CSS The Font Size include 4 group: None: default size The numeric: 9->36 in pixels. The options xx-small->xx-large indicate fixed sizes, replacing the sizes 1->7 used with the old HTML The options: smaller and larger are relative sizes, meaning that they shrink or enlarge the selected text based on the default size.
Text Formatting with CSS Picking a Font Color: To set the color of text, use the CSS Color property. Use the Property inspector s CSS mode Or assign a text color in the Text category of the CSS Rule Definition window.
Text Formatting with CSS CSS Type Properties in the Rule Definition Window: Type category lets you set formatting options that affect text
Text Formatting with CSS Font: choose a font from the Font menu. Size: pixels, ems, and percentages. Weight: Weight refers to the thickness of the font Style: italic, oblique, or normal Variant: normal or small-caps
Text Formatting with CSS Line Height: To create more space between lines. Case: you can automatically capitalize text. Decoration: This strange assortment of five checkboxes lets you dress up your text. Color: Set the color of the style s text using Dreamweaver s color box.
Text Formatting with CSS Block Properties: settings that affect how letters and words are displayed
Text Formatting with CSS Word spacing: adding or removing space between words. Letter spacing: space between letters. Vertical alignment: change the vertical placement of an object. Text align: controls the alignment of a block-level element like a paragraph or table.
Text Formatting with CSS Text indent: indent the first line of a paragraph Whitespace: This property controls how the browser displays extra white space. Display defines: how a Web browser should display a particular element like a paragraph or a link.
Text Formatting with CSS List Properties: To control bulleted and numbered lists properties. Type: Select the type of bullet you d like to use in front of a list item. disc, circle, square, decimal
Text Formatting with CSS Bullet image: control of your bullet icon Click the Browse button, and then, from your site folder, select a graphics file. outside
Text Formatting with CSS Position: controls how the bullet is placed relative to the list item s text. The outside : the bullet outside the margin of the text. The Inside : bullet within the text margin Inside