CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 1: Syntax and Type Selectors ![[Registration never required for free content]](/images/free.gif)
By: Adrian Senior on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Welcome to the first in a series of CSS Absolute Beginners articles and tutorials. My aim throughout this series will be to introduce the complete CSS novice to the exciting world of CSS.
This will be achieved by starting with the very basics of the language and building from there. The aim will be to bring you to a good level of ability and provide the under-pinning knowledge to make well informed decisions as you begin to write your own style sheets.
The CSS For Absolute Beginners Series:
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 1: Syntax and Type Selectors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 2: Linking Style Sheets
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 3: Making CC & DT Style Sheets Work for You
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 4: Type, Class & ID Selectors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 5: Pseudo-Classes and Elements
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 6: Grouping Selectors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 7: Contextual Selectors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 8: Specificity
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 9: Properties and Values - Working with Borders
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 10: Properties and Values - Working with Margins & Paddings
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 11: Properties and Values - The Display Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 12: Properties and Values - The font Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 13: Inheritance
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 14: Moving Elements In & Out of the Document Flow
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 15: Absolute Positioning
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 16: Position Relative
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 17: Position Fixed
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 18: Position Static
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 19: Floats & The Overflow Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 20: Floating and Clearing Elements
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 21: Floated Navigation Lists
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 22: Styling with Multi-Classes
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 23: Understanding Hex Value Colours
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 24: Understanding RGB Colors
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 25: Understanding Color Names
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 26: background-color Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 27: background-image Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 28: background-repeat Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 29a: background-position Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 29b: background-position Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 29c: background-position Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 30: The background-attachment Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 31: The background Shorthand Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 32: Generating Content with CSS
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 33a: The CSS content Property
CSS For Absolute Beginners - Part 33b: attr(), counter, increment & reset
