The Anatomy of Style

Select and Declare Elements and Rules Property and Value The Anatomy of Style TODO

Style Guide

Where to Style The Style Element The Style Attribute The Style Document TODO

CSS Documents

Directory Placement The <link> Tag Relationship Type Href The <link> Element TODO

CSS Applied

Comments in CSS Understanding Styling Applying Style TODO

Selector Types

Universal Selectors Element Selectors Class Selectors ID Selectors TODO

Chaining Selectors

Direct Chaining Child Selector Descendent Selector Adjacent Sibling Selector General Sibling Selector TODO

Cascading

Cascading in CSS Rules Order Specificity Setting Importance TODO

Exploring Color

Specifying Color Color Names RGB Values Hex Codes Saturated Color Desaturated Color (Grayscale) Combining Colors Color in Atom TODO

Using Color

Background Color Text Color Opacity Basic Positioning Learn More TODO

Specifying Color

Now that you are familiar with the basics or CSS, including how to apply rules, cascading, and selectors, let’s start using it. The first major topic in CSS will focus on color. Specifically, how to specify colors for text and backgrounds.

There are three common ways of specifying color in CSS;

Color Names
RGB
Hex Values

All work in a practically the same way, by specifying the amount of red, green, and blue that should be combined to make a color.

Each color has a possible range of 256 values, 0-255. Remember in a 0-based system, ‘0’ counts as a value.

“Color”