Tutoring web design, you deal with nuances. The tutor tells a quick trick for when fine tuning is needed. If two rules appear like so element{color:red} element{color:green} the element will be green (in my experience, anyway). That is, the later …
Tutoring web design, so many fun tricks can present themselves. The tutor brings up one from his reading. In a CSS stylesheet, you have tremendous fine-tuning potential based on contextual selection. Suppose you want, for instance, to render all list …
Tutoring, I just love to bring up neat new topics. The tutor mentions word-spacing. This sentence has no word-spacing set. This sentence has word-spacing at 150% (which apparently doesn’t change the rendering). This sentence has word-spacing at 1em. This sentence …
Tutoring, definitions are important. The tutor shares the difference between CSS properties and html attributes. A CSS property is something you change to affect the appearance of an element. For instance, the color property can be set to the color …
Anyone tutoring web design knows that CSS is practically a universe. The tutor mentions CSS resize. To make a div element resizable on a desktop, the CSS property resize can be used. For example, the resizable div This div is …
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Tutoring web design, you develop preferences. The tutor shows a way to accomplish emphasized lead-in text. Sometimes, the writer might want to lead a paragraph with attention-catching, larger type, perhaps having different color and font. One idea of how to …
Tutoring web design, you might be asked about centering. The tutor comments. In my experience, if there’s an element I’m trying to center, the width and height parameters are best to appear before the position parameters (including transforms, if applicable). …
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Tutoring web graphics to myself, this was an early curiosity. Html colors can be expressed as rgb(0-255, 0-255, 0-255): the first number is for red, the second green, the third blue. Red, for instance, is rgb(255,0,0). Interestingly, brown can be …
The tutor shares an observation about the concat() function. The concat() function is used to join one or more strings to the end of another: var strng0 = “This string, “; var strng1 = “then this one” var strng2 = …
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The tutor shows a way to place content over other content. To put content on top of other content, the z-index style parameter can be used. If two elements are set at the same absolute position, the one with the …
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