style images in css

Cascading Style Sheets, better known as CSS, is a powerful tool used by designers to style websites and applications. This article will guide you through the process of styling images using CSS, implementing a certain code snippet and explaining how it works.

Code snippet: Styling an Image

Take a look at the following CSS code:

#image1 {
  width: 500px;
  height: 300px;
  border: 5px solid black;
}

This code will set the size of an image with the id “image1” to 500 pixels wide and 300 pixels tall. Additionally, it will give the image a 5-pixel wide black border.

Code Explanation for Styling an Image

CSS works by connecting a particular style with an HTML element. In this case, we are specifying styles for an image element with the ID “image1”.

First, #image1 targets the image with the ID “image1”. The ’#’ symbol is used to select elements by their ID. Our image from the HTML file with an id ‘image1’ will be affected by the style.

The {} contain the set of CSS declarations that will be applied to that element. Inside {}, we have three styles:

• width: 500px; - This declaration sets the width of the image to 500 pixels. ‘px’ stands for pixels, a common unit of measurement in screen displays.

• height: 300px; - Similarly, this declaration sets the height of the image to 300 pixels.

• border: 5px solid black; - This declaration adds a border to the image. The border is 5 pixels wide, solid, and black.

Remember to add each style property on a new line and to always end them with a semicolon (;).

This was a very basic example of how CSS can be used to style images on a website. With further exploration, you can add backgrounds, margins, padding, and more to an image. As a web designer, manipulating images with CSS is a vital skill that will allow you to create more engaging and aesthetically pleasing designs.