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coding; an explanation of why you should consider using Visual Studio as a
CSS editor; an online site that specializes in ways to use CSS to build columns
into your pages; and more. Each tip was chosen for its succulence.Conventions Used in This Book ..................................................................
This book is filled with examples that serve as recipes to help you cook up
finished CSS Web pages. Some of these examples are in the form of numbered
steps. Each step starts off with a boldface sentence or two telling you what
you should do. Directly after the bold step, you may see a sentence or two,
not in boldface, telling you what happens as a result of the bold action — a
menu opens, a dialog box pops up, a wizard appears, you win the lottery,
whatever.I’ve tried to make the examples as general as possible, but at the same time
make them specific, too. Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? Sometimes it was; in
other cases, it wasn’t easy. The idea is to give you a specific example that you
can follow while also giving you a template: an understandable, useful tech-
nique that you can apply directly to your own Web pages. In other words, I
want to illustrate a technique, but in a way that employs real-world, useful CSS.Special symbols ...................................................................................
Note that a special symbol shows you how to navigate menus. For example,
when you see “Choose File➪Save As,” you should select the File menu, and
then select the Save As submenu.When I display programming code, you see it in a typeface that looks like
this:<style>#pfirst {font-size: 8px;
width: 400px;}</style>Parts of the code that are important to the topic under discussion are in
boldface, like the font-sizeproperty in this code. When I mention some
programming code within a regular paragraph of text, I use a special typeface,
like this: width: 400px;. That way, you can easily distinguish programming
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