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CSS Masterclass Curriculum

Or how to master CSS using available free content.

Photo by Paula May on Unsplash

Photo by Paula May on Unsplash


CSS is a very vast topic seems to be easy at first, but it becomes a pain in a head when you want to master it not for lack of tutorials but for lack of path or full curriculum to mastering it, here I am going to show you how to master CSS by following a curriculum contain very comprehensive resources from the internet, and sure it will be free.

What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript. CSS is designed to enable the separation of presentation and content, including layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple web pages to share formatting by specifying the relevant CSS in a separate .css file and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. (Source: Wikipedia)

How this curriculum work?

In each section you can find 📖 Contents and 📚 Resources, in contents I show to you what topics included in this section then in resources sections I list some of the big and most comprehensive ( articles, videos or courses ) resources covering this topic. But before you start you need to learn the basics of HTML & CSS then follow the Curriculum to master CSS.

Some section has ⭐ it means that this is recommended tools to use.

HTML&CSS Basics

Curriculum

Syntax

css syntax

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A CSS rule-set consists of a selector and a declaration block:

The selector points to the HTML element you want to style. The declaration block contains one or more declarations separated by semicolons. Each declaration includes a CSS property name and a value, separated by a colon. A CSS declaration always ends with a semicolon, and declaration blocks are surrounded by curly braces. (Source: w3schools)

CSS Selectors

In CSS, selectors are used to targeting the HTML elements on our web pages that we want to style.

📖 Contents

  • Simple Selectors:

    • Element
    • Class
    • Id
    • Universal Selector ( , ns|, |, |* )

  • Combinators & Multiple selectors:

    • Group of selector [A, B].
    • Descendant selector [A B].
    • Child selector [A > B].
    • Adjacent sibling selector [A + B].
    • General sibling selector [A ~ B].

  • Attribute Selectors

  • Pseudo-class Selectors

  • Pseudo-element Selectors

📚 Resources

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CSS Properties

Note: You will learn more about properties when you get into proper section but you can learn some generic concept like CSS variables.

📖 Contents

  • CSS Variables

📚 Resources

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CSS Values

CSS values are set against CSS Properties and reside within CSS declaration block, which is a part of the CSS rule/statement. Note: You will learn more about each value type when you get into proper section but you can learn some generic values like rem, colors, calc ...etc.

📖 Contents

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The cascade

Cascading is the algorithm used for solving conflicts where multiple CSS rules apply to an same HTML element. The cascade algorithm is split into 4 distinct stages.

Position and order of appearance: the order of which your CSS rules appear Specificity: an algorithm which determines which CSS selector has the strongest match Origin: the order of when CSS appears and where it comes from, whether that is a browser style, CSS from a browser extension, or your authored CSS Importance: some CSS rules are weighted more heavily than others, especially with the !important rule type

📖 Contents

  • Position and order of appearance:

    • Inline style
    • Embedded style tag
    • External file

  • Specificity hierarchy:

    • Universal selector
    • Element or pseudo-element selector
    • Class, pseudo-class, or attribute selector
    • ID selector
    • Inline style attribute
    • !important rule

  • Origin:

    • User agent base styles: Browser style like chrome, firefox, ...etc.
    • Local user style: System style like windows, android, ..etc.
    • Authored CSS: Any css developer are write
    • Authored !important: any !important developer are write

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CSS Box Model

css box model

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The CSS box model is the foundation of layout on the Web — each element is represented as a rectangular box, with the box's content, padding, border, and margin built up around one another like the layers of an onion. As a browser renders a web page layout, it works out what styles are applied to the content of each box, how big the surrounding onion layers are, and where the boxes sit in relation to one another. Before understanding how to create CSS layouts, you need to understand the box model. (source: MDN)

📖 Contents

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Styling Content

After you learn the box-model, learning styling content ( which is the part of box-model ) is the big core concept to master. In this section, you will learn how to style those content like images, text, lists, links ...etc.

📖 Contents

  • Typography.
  • Lists.
  • Links.
  • Media ( Image, Video, and Audio ).
  • Tables.
  • Forms.
  • Buttons.

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CSS Layout

Once you have the ability to target HTML elements for styling, the layout is the next core concept to master. Layout involves manipulating how elements layout on the page, How much space do they take? Are they side by side or on top of each other?...etc.

📖 Contents

  • Normal flow
  • The display property:
    • Block.
    • Inline.
    • Inline-Block.
    • Flexbox.
    • Grid.
    • Table.
  • Floats
  • Positioning
    • Default ( no property specified or Static ).
    • Relative.
    • Absoulte.
    • Fixed.
    • Sticky.
    • Stacking Content ( Z-Index property ).
  • Multiple-column layout

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Responsive Web Design

Responsive Web Design is about using HTML and CSS to automatically resize, hide, shrink, or enlarge, a website, to make it look good on all devices desktops, tablets, and phones. (Source: w3schools)

📖 Contents

  • Media Queries

  • Responsive Images

  • Common Responsive Patterns Responsive Patterns

    • Mostly Fluid.
    • Column Drop.
    • Layout Shifter.
    • Off Canvas.

  • Responsive Layout Methods:

    • Mobile-First.
    • Desktop-First.

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CSS Animations and Drawing

CSS Animations involves manipulating how elements should look like over the time by allowing you to specify how elements change from one style to another.

📖 Contents

  • CSS Animations - Transforms:

    • Transform translate().
    • Transform rotate() and Transform-Origin.
    • Transform scale().
    • Transform skew().
    • Transform Shorthand.

  • CSS Animations - Transitions:

    • Transition Duration.
    • Transition Property.
    • Transition Timing Function.
    • Transition Delay.
    • Transition Shorthand.

  • CSS Animations - Keyframes:

    • CSS Animation Keyframes.
    • CSS Animation Duration.
    • CSS Animation Fil Mode.
    • CSS Animation Iteration Count.
    • CSS Animation Delay.
    • CSS Animation Direction.
    • CSS Animation Timing Function.
    • CSS Animation Properties.
    • CSS Animation Shorthand.

  • CSS Shapes:

    • CSS Shapes: the inset() function.
    • CSS Shapes: The circle() Function.
    • CSS Shapes: The ellipse() Function.
    • CSS Shapes: The polygon() function.
    • CSS Shapes: Shapes from the Alpha Channel.
    • CSS Shapes: Shapes from the Reference Box.

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CSS Frameworks

In this area, you can pick up any framework you want, but I will list here the most famous one.

📖 Contents

  • Tailwind CSS ⭐
  • Bootstrap ⭐
  • Bulma

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CSS Methodologies

If you're not careful, it is easy to write complex, confusing, and unmaintainable CSS. so there are many ways to manage that.

📖 Contents

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CSS Preprocessor

The use of CSS preprocessors has become so important especially when you start working on a large project. Learn about the most famous and common used preprocessor ( SASS ), Why I use it?, How to use it? and How to writing maintainable and scalable Sass.

📖 Contents

  • Common Preprocessors:
    • SASS. ⭐
    • LESS.
    • Stylus.
    • PostCSS. ⭐

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Where to go next?

In general, I found this blogs, newsletter or courses the best resources to learn CSS in specific and web development in general and for those who prefer paid courses I list for you the best-paid courses available on the web.

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