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Understanding the CSS Cascade

Understanding the CSS Cascade

Demystify CSS order, specificity and origin.


Course details

4.7∙118 Ratings47 reviews

Published
June 2014
Videos
9
Duration
48m
Happy students
3792

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About the course

In CSS, the cascade is everything — there's a hint why in its name. If you don’t understand how CSS rules are applied by browsers, you are in for a world of pain. Over a series of five lessons, you'll learn how browsers sort declarations to determine which selectors will “win”. The course includes a series of hands-on exercises on all aspects of the cascade from user style sheets to !important rules, specificity and more. This course is taught by Russ Weakley, with a technical review 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 this Course
    2:10
  • Locked
    Types of Style Sheets, Normal vs/ Important Declarations & Conflict
    5:08
Lesson 2: Sorting by origin and importance
Lesson 3: Specificity
Lesson 4: Order
Lesson 5: The Future
Lesson 6: Postscript

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Course details

4.7∙118 Ratings47 reviews

Published
June 2014
Videos
9
Duration
48m
Happy students
3792

Take this course
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