Prior to watching this video, you should be somewhat comfortable with the HTML introduction video and HTML attributes video. Feel free to review them prior to beginning an introduction of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Cascading Style Sheets are used for format the layout of a webpage. They leverage HTML tags but provide additional structure to manage the look and feel of those tags. This ~10-minute video introduces CSS styles. It begins by reviewing the main sections of an HTML document (remember, Canvas only allows course developers to access tags within the body of the HTML page). The presentation then indicates three ways that CSS can be added to a webpage. It focuses predominantly on inline styels because that is what Canvas allows. To add inline styles, you add the style attribute within HTML tags. You can then include various specifications for those styles. The presentation describes background-color, color, font-size, margin, padding, border, border-radius, and a few more.

Once you have watched this presentation, try your hand at basic CSS styles. Navigate to the Week 2: CSS Sandbox discussion board modify the text color, background color, padding and other specifications for headings, regular text, and so forth. Learning how to complete these simple modifications will help prepare you for more difficult layouts in subsequent weeks.