Assignment 4: Cascading Style Sheets and Structure

Syllabus | Due Date |


Question 1: Linking to Cascading Style Sheets

Create a set of 3 identicial web pages that differ only in the way they applying CSS style to HTML content:

  1. First document: External style sheet
  2. Second document: Internal style sheet
  3. Third document: In-line style sheet

Use the following CSS information and HTML content to create the pages.

CSS Information

P { font-family: courier, monospace;
font-size: large }

.center { text-align: center }

H1 { font-family: Ariel, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
font-size: larger; }

H1.title { font-family: fantasy;
text-transform: uppercase }

HTML Code Fragment to Style

<H1 CLASS="title">Moby Dick</H1>
<P CLASS="center">By Herman Melville</P>
<H1>Loomings</H1>
<P> Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely --having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. </P>
<P>This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs--commerce surrounds it with her surf. </P>

Source of Moby Dick text was Project Gutenberg


Question 2: Style Sheet Linking

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the three different ways to associate a CSS style to an HTML element?


Question 3: Using CSS Styling and HTML text to create a button with similar graphical effects of the following image:

Button


Due

April 3rd, 2003