Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML, 5th Edition

Page Layout with CSS

●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

textand 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.

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

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