Step 7
More styling!
-
Let's put a border around the "output" (the stuff we shall display once the
zzz
button is clicked). -
Wrap the content after
zzz
button in a<div></div>
tag:
<div>
<p>It takes the average human fourteen minutes to fall asleep.</p>
<p>If you head to bed right now, you should try to wake up at one of the following times:</p>
<p>11:44 PM or 1:14 AM or 2:44 AM or 4:14 AM or 5:44 AM or 7:14 AM</p>
<p>A good night's sleep consists of 5-6 complete sleep cycles.</p>
</div>
HTML
<div>
tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document. You can think of it as a container for other HTML elements - which is then styled with CSS or manipulated with JavaScript.
- Now add the following to the end of the
<style>
section (right before the closing tag</style>
):
div {
border: 3px solid white;
margin-top: 20px;
}
-
The
border
andmargin-top
properties are descriptive. Thepx
is short for pixel, a unit used to express length. -
Save the
index.html
file; refresh theindex
page in the browser. -
There are several different units for expressing length. For example, try the following:
div {
border: 3px solid white;
margin: 1em 5em 1em 5em;
}
- You may want to look up the CSS margin property and CSS units.
The
<div>
is a common element. If we were to expand this web app in the future, we would likely have many morediv
elements. The above styling will be applied to alldiv
elements. It would be forward-thinking to ensure the styling is applied only to thediv
that contains the "output."
- Add the following class attribute to the
<div>
element.
<div class="output">
- Update the
div
CSS selector to.output
.output {
border: 3px solid white;
margin: 1em 5em 1em 5em;
}
Classes allow CSS (and Javascript) to select and access specific elements. Note the style selector for a class starts with a dot as in
.output
.
- Save the
index.html
file; refresh theindex
page in the browser.