Chapter 4
Inline Styling
Now that we’ve added the content for our pages and blocked out the basic structure, we’re ready to add some styling. Our basic approach involves adding inline styles, which means putting styling commands directly inside the site’s HTML tags. This approach will allow us to understand exactly what our styling is doing on a per-element basis, giving us immediate results.
Inline styles are generally considered a bad practice, though (Box 4.1). En route to fixing this issue, we’ll get just a tiny taste of Cascading Style Sheets—the design language of the Web—by converting inline styles for one of our pages to CSS. This in turn will provide an essential foundation for front-end design and development (Part II) and for writing ...
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