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CSS Tutorial (Lesson 4: Fonts)

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In this lesson you will learn about fonts and how they are applied using CSS. We will also look at how to work around the issue that specific fonts chosen for a website can only be seen if the font is installed on the PC used to access the website.

CSS Tutorial (Lesson 5: Text)

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Formatting and adding style to text is a key issue for any web designer. In this lesson you will be introduced to the amazing opportunities CSS gives you to add layout to text.

CSS Tutorial (Lesson 6: Links)

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You can apply what you already learned in the previous lessons to links (i.e. change colors, fonts, underline, etc). The new thing is that CSS allows you to define these properties differently depending on whether the link is unvisited, visited, active, or whether the cursor is on the link. This makes it possible to add fancy and useful effects to your website. To control these effects you use so-called pseudo-classes.

CSS Tutorial (Lesson 7: Identification and grouping of elements (class and id))

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Sometimes you want to apply a special style to a particular element or a particular group of elements. In this lesson, we will take a closer look at how you can use class and id to specify properties for selected elements.

CSS Tutorial (Lesson 8: Grouping of elements (span and div))

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The elements and

are used to group and structure a document and will often be used together with the attributes class and id.

In this lesson, we will take a closer look at the use of and

as exactly these two HTML elements are of central importance with regards to CSS.