Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML, 5th Edition

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Chapter 3


Checkpoint 3.1



  1. Reasons to use CSS on a Web page include the following: greater control of
    typography and page layout, separation of style from structure, potentially
    smaller Web page documents, and easier site maintenance.

  2. Since visitors may set their browsers to certain colors, when changing a text color
    or a background color it is a good idea to configure the text color and the back-
    ground color properties to provide good contrast between text and background.

  3. Embedded styles are coded once in the header section of the Web page and apply
    to the entire page. This is more efficient than coding individual styles on HTML
    elements using inline styles.


Checkpoint 3.2



  1. Embedded styles can be used to configure the text and color formatting for an
    entire Web page. Embedded styles are placed in the header section of a Web page.
    The