Megan Trebilcock

Summary #3: Stylin' with CSS

Topic #1- Headings and paragraphs

Using CSS styling in HTML, you can adjust font size, weight, color, and spacing for headings and paragraphs. In order to improve readability and establish a clear visual hierarchy of the content, you can tag headings and paragraphs with CSS rules (descending order of heading size). Creating a cohesive design enables you to enhance both the appearance and the user experience of your webpage.

Topic #2: Bold, italic, emphasis

CSS styling for HTML text can be applied to tags like b, i, and em to adjust how bold, italicized, and emphasized text appears. While /b and /i are used for visual styling without semantic meaning, /em is used for emphasis and typically renders text in italics with semantic importance. CSS allows you to customize these styles further, controlling aspects such as font weight, style, and color, to enhance the text's visual impact and semantic clarity.

Topic #3: Structural and semantic markup

To create visually appealing and organized layouts for HTML webpages, you can design both structural and semantic markup elements with CSS styling. A page's structural elements, such as its header, navigation, and footer, provide a sense of structure, while semantic elements, like the article, section, and side, give the content meaning. Using CSS rules to enhance the appearance of these elements will ensure that the webpage is both visually appealing and semantically meaningful.