January 2003
Beginner to intermediate
1200 pages
23h 42m
English
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Creating Block Elements
You might have noticed the property-value pair display: block in the rules in ch09_02.css:
TITLE {display: block; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold;
text-align: center; text-decoration: underline}
AUTHOR {display: block; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;
text-align: center}
SECTION {display: block; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;
text-align: center; font-style: italic}
P {display: block; margin-top: 10}
In particular, display: block specifies that the element in question get its own block, which means that these elements start on a new line and that the element following them starts on a new line as well. That is, you use display: block to create block-level elements.
The display property is more important in ...