In this course, you'll continue developing your web-development skills by formatting element edges and corners, controlling an element's height and width, controlling an element's position and layering, and normalizing and resetting browser CSS defaults. You'll also use advanced selectors, manager user-interface states, make structure more apparent to users, and use CSS pseudo-element selectors. Then, you'll use CSS to create newspaper-style columns, grid layouts, and flexible box layouts.
Web Dev: Page Layout and Complex Style Rules
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Web Dev: Page Layout and Complex Style Rules
This course is part of Web Development with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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7 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
In this course, you will use CSS to format positional and size aspects of HTML elements, apply complex style rules, and create complex layouts.
Skills you'll gain
- User Interface (UI) Design
- Web Development Tools
- User Interface (UI)
- HTML and CSS
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- Front-End Web Development
- Web Design
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Software Development
- Web Applications
- Browser Compatibility
- Responsive Web Design
- Web Design and Development
- Web Development
- Web Servers
- Web Content
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January 2026
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Taught in English
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Much of your effort in creating HTML is about placing content inside of elements. But when it comes to matters of layout, CSS gives you a lot to consider regarding what happens around the outside of an element—the edges and spacing that fence your content in. CSS gives you complete control over the spacing inside and outside the edges, the color and lines (if any) used to draw the edges. You also can control the overall size, position, and layering of elements within a web page.
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CSS rules provide a powerful way to format many HTML pages from a single source, without having to spend significant time editing every page. They can make your website more consistent, and they can significantly reduce the time needed to format an entire site. Their power comes primarily from selectors, and CSS provides numerous types of selectors that will make your website formatting tasks even more efficient.
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6 plugins
CSS provides numerous options for laying out elements in complex column-and-row layouts that enable you to present information so it is easy to read, arranged for easy comparison, and adaptable to different screen layouts
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5 plugins
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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