Learn CSS in 12 Minutes
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering beginners who are confused about linking CSS, positioning, or basic styling, and newcomers often cite it when asking for help while following along.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2014 to 2019.
What it is
A short beginner tutorial by Jake Wright that introduces CSS in about twelve minutes. It shows how to link a stylesheet to an HTML page, explains the basic selector and property syntax, and walks through the most common properties.
What people said
Recommends Chrisji · 2014-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Abusing absolute positioning. Is this the right way to layer my page?”
To expand on my comment, if you don't already see then benefits of relative positioning then I'll assume you are a begginer. Here is a useful video to help you re-design you page: [this video] Also, this is useful for comparing when each positioning method is best used: [LINK] And finally a general website that will be extremely useful for you in the near future may be CSSTricks [LINK] !
Recommends Awkwardtaco · 2016-07 · Stack Overflow · on “External CSS - How do I write/apply tags in HTML page (beginner)”
This [LINK] is were I got my start in html. It teaches basic html and there are other videos that go along with it. This [this video] will likely clear up some confusion with css. Codeacademy.com is a much more thorough course of a multitude of web languages.
Cites K Galaxy · 2017-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Why does p{margin: 0} have no effect when the <p> is included in a <div>?”
I encountered the issue after following this video: [this video] In this youtube video, he included the ID's in the div containers. But you said the id should not be set in the div container. Then, isn't what he was doing the video wrong?
Cites user11658543 · 2019-06 · Stack Overflow · on “background color for header div not working”
I've just started learning CSS and am following a YouTube tutorial Learn CSS in 12 Minutes [this video] , however I am stuck at minute 4:49 - the title should show a blue background but mine doesn't? <head> <title>My website</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.cs </head> and on my stle.css sheet I have: #header { background-color: #66CCFF; } I expected the area behind 'title' to be blue when I view in browser.