Where to start?

want to learn CSS

[Pozo]

Hi I am a CS student and can program in c++.
I know the basics of HTML and quite a lot of Java Script too. I am learning PHP and want to learn CSS.
Please guide me about how and where to start.

[limbo]

Hi Pozo.

The CSS forum library has some excellent reads:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Course the best way to learn is to do. Build a small dummy site with some demanding layout and styling techniques and work through issues as you go. Or if you have a personal site that you'd like to spruce up, do a new version of it?

[tangor]

CSS is not quite a tooth ache if done in steps:

Text styling (foremost)
Divs and Floats (the Main Thing)
Then (if needed) all the rest.

Bits and pieces. Learn to use that master css file for the site with text styling first, then dive into the site wide divs second. Get that part done and then the on page variations will begin to make sense.

[Pozo]

Thank you limbo and tangor,

The forum definitely has got good stuff. Looking at css in steps has helped me and has started making sense. :)

[joiseymike]

Some things I'd toss into tangor's list..

Text styling (foremost)

Know the difference between inline and block elements, and what HTML elements are which (there are other types, but they're the main ones)

Divs and Floats (the Main Thing)

Conditional comments to load version specific CSS.

Absolute and Relative positioning, and z-indexes.

Then (if needed) all the rest.