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  • 5. What is CSS?
  • 6. Change the values of the CSS property
  • 7. Let’s change the properties in the CSS rules
  • 8. Create your own CSS rule
  • 9. Apply the styles by class
  • 10. Let’s use two classes
  • 11. Let’s redefine the styles
  • 12. Let’s finish setting up the styles
  • 13. Summary of “Introduction to HTML and CSS”
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Change the values of the CSS property

Improvements, improvements, and more improvements. Muffin, although a cat, is no different from a typical boss, and wants still more tweaks:

  • The main heading could use a different font (typical boss),
  • The top margin is quite large (well, that’s fair),
  • The indentations in the list are a bit too small (yeah, just barely, but we get the idea).

Well, it looks like you can’t go on simply adding classes to the HTML. You will have to delve into the CSS code and edit it. CSS applies styles to the HTML tags using properties in the following format:

property: value;

For example:

color: red;    /* red text color */
padding: 10px; /* 10 pixel inner padding */

To complete this task from the boss, all you need to do is change the values of the properties that are already in the CSS. We’ve marked the required properties with comments. By the way, you can specify comments in the CSS using the characters /* and */. Let’s proceed to the practice exercises.

Comments

  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Instructor Muffin</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <header class="site-header"> <h1>Instructor Muffin</h1> <p>Training for beginner kittens</p> <img src="img/muffin.png" width="359" height="159" alt="Muffin photo"> </header> <section class="features"> <h2>Why choose me?</h2> <p class="feature-kitten">I myself was once a kitten. But look at me now.</p> <p class="feature-train">I have got the master fully trained.</p> <p class="feature-cat">I have been a full-time professional cat for more than 5 years now.</p> </section> <section class="skills"> <h2>What will you learn, you may ask?</h2> <ul class="skills-list"> <!-- Greetings from Muffin: Meow, I’ve added more markup classes here! --> <li class="skills-item">How to snatch food from the master’s plate;</li> <li class="skills-item">How to give furniture a vintage look;</li> <li class="skills-item">How to open the door and not go in;</li> <li class="skills-item">How to wake the master up at night;</li> <li class="skills-item">How to scatter fur around the apartment.</li> </ul> </section> <footer class="site-footer"> <p>© Muffin, 2019</p> <p>I don’t have any contact information, but I can find you myself.</p> </footer> </div> </body> </html>
CSS
body { padding: 0; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; background: #ffffff url("img/muffin-background.jpg") no-repeat 50% 0; } h1 { width: 260px; /* Change the property value to "Georgia", serif */ font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 36px; } .site-header { /* Change the property value to 30px */ margin-bottom: 190px; } .skills-item { /* Change the property value to 15px */ margin-bottom: 5px; } .container { width: 480px; margin: 0 auto; } .site-header img { display: block; margin: 0 auto; } .features { margin-bottom: 30px; } .features p { display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 30%; margin: 0 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center top; text-transform: uppercase; } .feature-kitten { padding-top: 60px; background-image: url("img/bottle.svg"); } .feature-cat { padding-top: 60px; background-image: url("img/cat.svg"); } .feature-train { padding-top: 60px; background-image: url("img/whistle.svg"); } .skills-list { padding: 0; } .site-footer { display: flex; justify-content: space-between; color: #999999; }

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    1. On line 13 replace font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; with font-family: "Georgia", serif;,
    2. then change the line margin-bottom: 190px; to margin-bottom: 30px;,
    3. and, finally, replace the line margin-bottom: 5px; with margin-bottom: 15px;.

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