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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition
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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition

by Håkon Wium Lie, Bert Bos
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
9h 23m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 7. Space Inside Boxes

Extra space in and around elements on a page can enhance your presentation and help get your message across to the reader. Along with influencing color (Chapter 10, “Colors”) and fonts (Chapter 5, “Fonts”), influencing spacing has been high on the wishlists of Web-page designers.

Before CSS, there were three ways to control space in HTML:

Elements –Recall that browsers normally throw away white space characters: newlines, tabs, and extra white spaces (any more than the usual one space between words). However, inside the PRE element, these characters are preserved with their original meanings. By using PRE, designers have used white space characters to achieve, for example, a crude multicolumn layout. Other HTML ...

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