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Jump Start CSS
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Jump Start CSS

by Louis Lazaris
September 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
150 pages
3h 51m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 2Layout Techniques

In this chapter, I'm going to introduce you to some layout techniques. You’ll get hands-on experience with these when we implement some of them into the skeleton we built for our CSS in Chapter 1.

Before that, there are some additional fundamental concepts that we didn’t cover in Chapter 1 that you’ll get to know.

The Box Model

The box model refers to the (usually) invisible rectangular area that is created for each HTML element. This area has four basic components, and it’s much easier to explain using a diagram, so take a look at Figure 2.1:

A graphic representation of the box model

Figure 2.1. A graphic representation of the box model

The box model components ...

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