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Saqib Suleman
Saqib Suleman

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Starting with CSS

After successfully graduating from HTML, we move on to the beautiful and colorful world of Cascading Style Sheets(CSS). As described in the earlier articles, HTML is the noun and the CSS is the adjective of our webpage. After adding our HTML markup which is the content of our webpage, we style it with the help of CSS. Styling can be of different sorts such as changing the font size, the font color, the background color to name a few. Further we learn about the basic CSS properties that are commonly used to style our markup.

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GrahamTheDev

Could I make a suggestion (I don't want to discourage you in any way) but could you perhaps do a daily round-up of what you have learned (write as you go but save it as a draft instead of publishing and add to it as you go, then publish at the end of each day or the next day).

At the same time tag your posts appropriately.

At the moment I have 4 posts from you all in the space of 3 hours that are tagged with JavaScript when there is only one that even mentions JavaScript. It just becomes a little overwhelming and makes it hard to follow.

As I said I do not want to be negative, it looks like you are picking things up quickly, and I look forward to seeing some things you have created once you have the CSS down!

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Saqib Suleman

Thanks you so much for your suggestion and I heartfully respect your opinion about my work. But the thing is that I have been writing articles about my daily progress on hashnode for over a month now, I found out about dev just a couple of days ago, so for now I am just copying my articles from hashnode to dev because I want them both to be at the same article count so i can write the future articles simultaneously on both of them. I hope you understand.

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GrahamTheDev

No issue, now it makes sense, I did think you were progressing at a frightening rate! 🤣

Just check your tagging makes sense for what you write about!

As I said, looking forward to seeing some things you create with your new skills!

Also are you aware you can turn things into a series on here? That is a great way to link things together (i.e. you could create a series "learning HTML" and then a series "learning CSS" so that your articles are linked together. Check the "nut" (settings) icon at the bottom when you write a post.

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Saqib Suleman

Oh. I didn't know about that. That's actually a good idea. I will make a bunch of articles into a series. Can I also make the already published articles into a series?

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GrahamTheDev

Yes, just go into one article to create a series. Then go into the next article and select that series from the drop down and it will show up automagically (you have to have 2 live articles in a series for it to show up).

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Saqib Suleman

Okay, got it. Can you also guide me please how I can present my code better(not just as simple text) in an article?

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GrahamTheDev

You use markdown to do this. If you search Google for "how to use Markdown" there are loads of tutorials out there. Also when you write an article you should see a panel to the right where you can see a few things you can do in markdown hidden under what looks like a link.

A good place to learn basic markdown is stackoverflow.com as they have a toolbar similar to a normal editor where you can select "bold" for example and it will add the relevant markdown around any selected text.

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Saqib Suleman

Got it. Thanks.