HTML and CSS Reference
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Layout with CSS3
This chapter covers
inline-block
and table display values from CSS2
Media queries to give different CSS to different devices
New CSS3 layout modules: templates, grids, and regions
Many people have complained over the years about the poor tools avail-
able for layout in
CSS
. This isn't an unwarranted criticism, because
CSS1
had almost no layout tools. No one anticipated that people would start to
do graphic design with web pages until it happened. Several options were
added in
CSS2
, most of which didn't see broad browser support until the
release of
IE8
in 2009. Given that it's taken so long for
CSS2
layout to be
supported, support for
CSS3
layout modules got off to a slow start; but
recently there's been a lot of activity. This chapter covers both the old fea-
tures of
CSS2
that haven't seen much use and the new features in
CSS3
that browsers are just starting to support.
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