CSS: Specificity, the Box Model, and Best Practices (Interactive)

Explore the fundamentals of CSS, and review all the web-styling tools needed for front-end efficiency.

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Explore the fundamentals of CSS, and review all the web-styling tools needed for front-end efficiency. This interactive course was formerly known as CSS Cross Country on Code School.

Frost-Proof Fundamentals | 5m 18s
Challenge: External Stylesheets | 10s
Challenge: ID and Class Selectors | 10s
Challenge: Style Specificity | 10s
Challenge: Floating Columns | 10s

Clear Carving | 7m 15s
Challenge: Clearfix | 10s
Challenge: Nesting and Inheritance | 10s
Challenge: Increasing Specificity | 10s
Challenge: Removing ID Selectors | 10s

CSS: Specificity, the Box Model, and Best Practices (Interactive)

What you'll learn

Table of contents

Frost-Proof Fundamentals 5m 58s

Clear Carving 7m 55s

Box Bindings 7m 54s

Grooming Your Code 7m 54s

CSS Safety 4m 22s

Image Issues 4m 27s

Sprightly Slaloms 6m 1s

Pseudo Sitzmark 6m 6s