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CSS Selectors Tutorial for Beginners

Dave Gray via YouTube

Overview

This course on CSS selectors for beginners aims to teach the types of CSS selectors and their application, along with concepts like cascade, specificity, and inheritance. Students will learn about element selectors, class selectors, ID selectors, group selectors, nested selectors, and the universal selector. The teaching method includes a tutorial series playlist on YouTube, with practical examples and demonstrations. This course is intended for individuals who are new to CSS and want to understand how selectors work in styling web pages.

Syllabus

Intro
Welcome
Setup
Element selectors
Class selectors
ID selectors
Group selectors
Nested selectors
Universal selector
The Cascade
Specificity
Check your selectors in dev tools
Inheritance
You do not inherit from the universal selector
More on inheritance
Do not use this!
Specificity calculator

Taught by

Dave Gray

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