Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Inline Styling





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Inline styling

 * The only ability that Wikitext, by itself, has is to place black text on a white background as you see on this page.
 * To give any character to the text or any object on a page requires additional coding.
 * The coding we will use is called "Cascading Style Sheets" or "CSS.  Those of you who have any experience in website creation will be familiar with CSS.

Applying CSS coding

 * To apply CSS to Wikitext, we use "inline styling" coding.

Examples of Inline styling
 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
 * Here is an example of an inline style applied to some Lorum ipsum text.
 * This example is for changing the size of the font using our paragraph tags.
 * Lets look closely at the inline style code and break it down into pieces. It is not as intimidating as it might appear at first glance.
 * 1) The opening paragraph tag .
 * This coding will increase the size of the font from the default 14 pixels to 20 pixels.
 * Again, to change the size of the font, as in this example, you need to place this CSS coding between the.

 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

Attributes
eyecolor: blue or hair:  none or height:  six feet If any of these three attributes were put in a tag, the coding would look like this:
 * The combination of property - value is referred to as an attribute.
 * Let's use more familiar terms to perhaps make the concept of attributes with their properties and values more clear.
 * To describe a person we might state their physical attributes in the property: value form:


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 * NOTICE: If a property has more than one word the words are separated by a dash. For example font size should be font-size.
 * We will be introducing more attributes throughout these lessons.
 * Quick NOTE; there are no limits to the number of attributes you can add.

Try these out
 Exercises
 * Take our Lorem ipsum paragraph and change the size of the default font to 20 pixels. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
 * Take our Lorem ipsum paragraph and change the size of the default font to 48 pixels. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

Check your answers

 Quick Quiz
 * How many attributes can you put in the paragraph tag?
 * A. No more than 5
 * B. No more than 8
 * C. No more than 20
 * D. None of the above


 * What symbol do you use to separate a property from a value?
 * A. Colon
 * B. Semi-colon
 * C. Comma
 * D. All of the above

Check your answers

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