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CSS Selectors: Understanding the CSS cascade through sorting and specificity

CSS Selectors: Understanding the CSS cascade through sorting and specificity

In this course you will learn all the basic selectors, with details on their syntax, their use and browser support


Course details

4.8∙188 Ratings84 reviews

Published
June 2014
Videos
11
Duration
1h 1m
Happy students
4494

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About the course

Selectors are the backbone of CSS. If you understand how they work, everything about CSS becomes easier. This course will delve into all the basic selectors, with details on their syntax, their use and browser support. This course is taught by Russ Weakley and was tech reviewed by Aurelio De Rosa.

Course Instructor

Russ Weakley

Russ Weakley

Russ is a world-renowned author, speaker and CSS expert. Russ has a detailed knowledge of Design and development. His expertise covers graphic design, interface design, site architecture and standards based development.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Getting Started
  • Free
    Introduction to the Course
    3:14
  • Locked
    Introduction to CSS Selectors
    4:36
Lesson 2: Simple Selectors
Lesson 3: Combinators
Lesson 4: Link pseudo-classes
Lesson 5: Pseudo-elements

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Course details

4.8∙188 Ratings84 reviews

Published
June 2014
Videos
11
Duration
1h 1m
Happy students
4494

Take this course
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