Beginner's tutorials

Our learn web development core modules contain modern, up-to-date tutorials covering CSS fundamentals.

Your first website: Styling the content: This article provides a brief tour of what CSS is and how to use it, aimed at people who are completely new to web development.
CSS styling basics: This module provides all the CSS fundamentals you'll need to start learning the technology effectively, including syntax, features, and techniques.
CSS text styling: Here we look at CSS text fundamentals including setting font, boldness, italics, line and letter spacing, and drop shadows. We round off the module by looking at applying custom fonts to your page, and styling lists and links.
CSS layout: This module looks at floats, positioning, other modern layout tools, and building responsive designs that will adapt to different devices, screen sizes, and resolutions.

Guides

CSS guides are organized by modules and are there to help you learn what you can achieve using CSS. Browse the complete list at CSS guides, which includes topics such as:

CSS syntax including declarations and rulesets.
Specificity, inheritance, and cascade
Nesting, scoping and shadow parts
Media and container queries
Numeric and textual data types
Box model and margin collapse
Containing block
Stacking and block-formatting contexts
Property value processing
Shorthand properties
Flexible box, multi-column and grid layouts
Animations, transitions, and transforms

How to

CSS layout cookbook: Recipes for common layout patterns you might need to implement in your sites. These recipes provide code you can use as a starting point in your projects. These recipes also highlight the different ways layout specifications can be used and the choices you can make as a developer.

Tools

Border-image generator: Generate CSS border-image values.
Border-radius generator: Generate CSS border-radius effects.
Box-shadow generator: Add box-shadow effects to your CSS objects.
Color format converter: Enter or pick a color and copy its corresponding value in any CSS color format.
Color mixer: Mix two colors in any color space using the color-mix() function and copy the resulting color in any CSS color format.
Shape generator: Define coordinates and syntax for <basic-shape> features.

You can also use the following resources:

W3C CSS Validation Service: To check if your CSS is valid. This is an invaluable debugging tool.
Firefox Developer Tools: To view and edit a page's live CSS via the Inspector and the Style Editor tools.
Web Developer extension: To track and edit live CSS on websites in Firefox.

Reference

Browse the complete CSS reference documentation.

CSS properties: Reference for all CSS properties.
CSS selectors: Reference for CSS selectors, combinators, pseudo-classes, and pseudo-elements.
CSS at-rules: Reference for CSS at-rules including media queries.
CSS values: Reference for CSS keywords, data types, and functions.

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