Page Layout with CSS - Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML - page 213

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CHAPTER

Page Layout
with CSS

Chapter Objectives

In this chapter, you will learn how to ...

● Describe reasons to use CSS for page layout
● Use relative and absolute positioning
● Apply the CSS Box Model

● Configure basic page layouts using CSS
● Configure two-column page layouts using CSS
● Locate CSS page layout resources

Now that you are familiar with using CSS to format
text and color, you are ready to explore using CSS to configure Web page
layout. This method relies on CSS properties rather than XHTML tables to
design a Web page. The technology for this layout is often called CSS-P , for
CSS positioning. This chapter introduces you to configuring page layouts
using CSS.

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