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Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns
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Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns

by Michael Bowers
April 2007
Beginner to intermediate
526 pages
13h 18m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 2HTML Design Patterns

This chapter explores HTML only as it relates to CSS. It contains design patterns that are essential for styling a document with CSS. It explores HTML at a high level with an eye toward explaining how elements can be put to use structurally and semantically. Each design pattern in this book is created using structural and semantic elements combined with CSS. There are four major types of elements used in design patterns: structural block, terminal block, multi-purpose block, and inline elements. Understanding these types of elements is key to understanding the design patterns in this book and essential to creating your own.

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  • HTML Structure shows how HTML elements work together to create a document. ...
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