Chapter Ten: CSS Layout: Markup, Boxes, and Floats—Oh My!
In this chapter, you’ll finally be bringing your standards savvy to bear on a proper page layout. Your skills will be focused on a single page design like some sort of white-hot standards laser thing. And my similes may falling be flat, but you won’t: nine chapters of knowledge, theory, and standards know-how have you well prepared for the simple exercises contained in this chapter. Trust me. You just have that look about you.
But first, to better understand the finer points of CSS, let’s examine the mechanics of page layout and how our style sheets can influence them.
The Dao of Page Flow
Every element in a web page occupies a position within the document’s flow
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