Web Design with HTML and CSS

Lesson 7, Introduction to CSS Layout 139

What you’ll learn in

this lesson:

• Understanding CSS reset
  files


• An overview of CSS
  layout options


• How to use margins and
  padding to add space to
  your page


• Working with the float
  and clear properties

Introduction to CSS Layout

In this lesson, you will learn to control the appearance of text on

your web pages using CSS style.

Starting up

You will work with several fi les from the web07lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure you have
loaded the weblessons folder onto your hard-drive from http://www.digitalclassroombooks.com/webdesign.
See “Loading lesson fi les” in the Starting Up section of this book.

See Lesson 7 in action!

Use the accompanying video to gain a better understanding of how to use some of

the features shown in this lesson. You can fi nd the video tutorial for this lesson at

http://www.digitalclassroombooks.com using the URL provided when you registered your book.

The examples in this lesson use the TextWrangler text editor to create the HTML markup, but

you can use any of the text editors covered in Lesson 3.

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Lesson 7