Styling a card using CSS 🃏

Today we are going to style this card using CSS.

First of all, a mini mind map of what we will be doing to style this card is

• we need a container for the card, which has a nice border-radius and box-shadow .

• Then inside the container, we have a circular picture ( because we have made it's border-radius 50% ).

• After that, we have a heading.

• Then a paragraph for description ( its text is aligned in the center ).

• In last, we have a nice medium-sized button with a black background and white text.

Writing the code [HTML] for the card

Create an HTML file for the webpage and write the content for the card. or say make the skeleton of the card.

<div class="card-container">
            <img src="https://img.freepik.com/free-photo/landscape-shot-beautiful-cholatse-mountains-body-water-khumbu-nepal_181624-24825.jpg?size=626&ext=jpg"
                alt="landscape">
            <div class="card-content">
                <h2>Beautiful Landscape</h2>
                <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur 
                        adipisicing elit. Quisquam, quod.</p>
                <a href="#">Read More</a>
            </div>
        </div>

Here, I have created the card container using div tag and gave it the class of card-container .

Then used img tag to show an image from an external source, using its URL.

Then I created a div with a class of card-content that would contain the content of the card like a heading, description, and a link.

Writing CSS for the Card --> card-Container

First of all, we will style the card container, by selecting the div element with its class name

.card-container {
  width: 300px;
  height: 350px;
  background-color: #fff;
  border-radius: 10px;
  box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  margin: 20px;
  padding: 20px;
  text-align: center;
}

Every property is self-explanatory.

• width sets the width of the card,

• height sets the height of the card,

• background-color sets the background of the card ( #fff means white in hex ),

• border-radius makes all four corners of the card a bit circular,

• box-shadow gives the shadow to the card,

• margin sets the spacing outside of the card,

• 

• padding sets the spacing inside the card

• 

  text-align property sets the alignment of texts inside the card. It also sets the alignment of the text of the inner children.

Styling the picture of the card

We will select the img tag by descendant selector because img tag is a descendant of .card-container.

.card-container img {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  object-fit: cover;
}

Explanation of the above code:

• width as usual sets the width of the element ( in this case sets the width of img )

• height same as width , it sets the height of the element

• border-radius also takes the value in percentage, and makes the element circular ( if the element is square means its width is equal to its height ).

• object-fit property resizes and crops the image to fit the dimensions given to it, without cover value, the image will get stretched because the actual image is not a square.

Giving spacing above and below p tag,

.card-container p {
  padding-top: 20px;
  padding-bottom: 20px;
}

Here we selected p tag and gave spacing using padding-top and padding-bottom property. You can also use margin-top and margin-bottom for the same task.

Let's style our Big Black Button

.card-container a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #000;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

Here, I have used an anchor tag not a button.

So, we will make the anchor tag look like a button.

An anchor tag already comes with some styling, its color is blue and it has an underline.

• text-decoration is given the value of none to make the underline disappear.

• color sets the color of the text.

• background-color sets the background of the button.

• border takes three value values, 1px defines the thickness of the border, solid means the border line will be a continuous line, #000 defines the color of the border.

• padding defines the spacing inside the button, first 10px sets the upper and bottom padding, second 20px sets the left and right padding.

• border-radius makes the corner of the button curvy.

Adding Hover Effect to the Button

.card-container a:hover {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #000;
}

When you hover over ( take the cursor over the element) any element, CSS senses that event and applies the styling if it is defined on that element.

So we define the styling on hover of any element using :hover selector.

In our case, when an element is hovered, its text color becomes black and the background becomes white.

Read more about these properties on W3Schools

• margin

• padding

• border-radius

• box-shadow

  If you are facing difficulty in understanding any property, type the name of the property in the google search box 👍.

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