Chapter 9. Styling Text

Styling Text

In the last chapter we introduced you to the basics of CSS, adding a little style to our King Kong web page. In this chapter we go a bit further, styling all of the typographic elements on the mighty gorilla's web page. Cue thunderous roar from the jungle.

We deliberately kept things simple with our King Kong page in the last chapter, styling only a few elements: the body, h1, h2, and p. In this chapter we'll build on what we demonstrated in the last chapter and delve a little bit deeper into CSS, introducing and expanding on some underlying concepts along the way.

This chapter's focus is specifically on styling text, an area ...

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