Altering Element Display
As I mentioned briefly in Chapter 1, you can
affect the way a user agent displays by setting a value for the
property
display. Now that
we’ve taken a close look at visual formatting,
let’s revisit the display
property and discuss two more of its values using concepts from this
chapter.
We’ll ignore the table-related values, since they
get covered in Chapter 11, and
we’ll also ignore the value
list-item since we deal with lists in detail in
Chapter 12. We’ve spent quite
some time discussing block and
inline elements, but let’s spend
a moment talking about how altering an element’s
display role can alter layout before we look at
inline-block and run-in.
Changing Roles
When it comes to styling a document,
it’s obviously handy to be able to change the
display role of an element. For example, suppose you have a series of
links in a div that you’d like to
lay out as a vertical sidebar:
<div id="navigation"> <a href="index.html">WidgetCo Home</a><a ...
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