174 Part III: Adding Artistry: Design and Composition with CSS
Obviously, you’ve affected the height of this element by specifying a height
property. This, in turn, affects the default vertical positioning of any items
below this element. (You can affect the positioning of these lower items by
using positioning properties for them.)
Similarly, you can affect the height of a paragraph of text by making the para-
graph narrower, requiring that the paragraph grow in height to display all the
text. Specifying that a paragraph should be only 35 percent (of the browser
width) can cause the paragraph to flow off the bottom of the browser and
force the browser to add a scroll bar, as shown in Figure 9-8:
Figure 9-7:
Specify a
height value
larger than
this
graphic’s
default
height and
you cause
elements
beneath it to
move down
on your
page.
Figure 9-6:
If you don’t
specify
otherwise,
the image
is as high
and wide
as its file
specifica-
tion says it
should be.