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## CSS Demo
### CSS Properties
Now that we've gone over adding HTML tags to the page, lets cover adding styles to those tags. We can do quite a lot with styles! We can change:
- Typography
- Colors
- Appearance (Corners, Borders, Decorations)
- Layout
- Position
- Inline vs Block
- Animations
- and [many more](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference)
CSS is always applied in `property: value` pairs, like `background: blue;` and are terminated with a semi colon.
### Applying CSS to an HTML file
CSS can be applied to HTML tags in three different ways.
1. Inline - Styles are applied directly to the HTML tag
- `<div style="background: blue; color: white;">Hello </div>`
2. Via a `<style>` tag in the HTML page
3. Through an externally loaded CSS file
- `<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css-demo-finished.css" />`
### Targeting specific HTML tags
Inline styles are always applied directly to the element you place them on, style tags and external CSS files need a method for matching HTML elements with their prospective style sets. We call these "[CSS selectors](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Selectors)", and they are just as important to learn as the properties/values themselves. When selectors are combined with CSS styles, we call this a ruleset.
CSS rulesets take on the following form:
```css
selector1,
selector2 {
property1: value1;
property2: value2;
}
```
Here's a more detailed view from [Chris Eppstein](https://twitter.com/chriseppstein/status/1100115119437111296)
<img src="../../assets/css-syntax.png"/>
Selectors can be a single tag, class, ID, or attribute. It can also be a [combination](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduction_to_CSS/Combinators_and_multiple_selectors) of those elements.
Below are a series of selectors and property/value combinations that we'll apply to our CSS Demo page
```css
/* Targeting the entire page */
body {
font: 1.2em sans-serif;
}
/* Targeting an HTML tag */
h1 {
/* Color name */
color: black;
/* 6 digit hex */
background: #ababab;
/* Margin: property for each side */
margin-bottom: 15px;
margin-top: 15px;
/* Shorthand: Padding applies to all sides */
padding: 10px;
/* 3 digit hex and border shorthand */
border: 1px solid #ddd;
}
/* Overriding inherited styles */
span {
color: #004578;
}
/* Targeting a class name */
.tiles {
display: flex;
}
/* Decendant selector */
.tiles img {
width: 100%;
}
/* Direct decendant selector */
.tiles > div {
/* rgb colors */
background: rgb(10, 10, 10);
color: white;
flex-basis: 100%;
/* Longhand goes clockwise from top
10px - all
10px 20px - top/bottom left/right
10px 20px 15px - top left/right bottom
*/
padding: 10px 20px 15px;
margin: 10px 20px 10px 0;
border: 1px solid white;
}
/* Qualified selector */
div.links {
background: #004578;
}
/* Style inheritance only works for unstyled elements */
a {
color: white;
}
/* Pseudo hover selector */
a:hover {
color: #ccc;
}
/* Sibling selectors */
a ~ a {
/* Changing elements from inline to block */
display: block;
}
/* Positional Pseudo Selectors */
.tiles > div:last-child {
/* overrides margin-right but leaves other margins alone */
margin-right: 0;
}
/* ID selector */
#contact-form {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
/* Attribute selector */
input[type='submit'] {
margin-top: 10px;
}
```
## Next Step
[JavaScript Demo](../js-demo)