April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
6h 33m
English
The past few years, people have sought a means to transcend all the problems related to table-based layouts and use CSS specifically for managing the visual layouts of their designs. In this chapter, you get a chance to work with the primary types of layouts in CSS that are typically used to achieve a range of design. Some of these layouts are based on positioning schemes, which you explored in Chapter 12, “Positioning, Floats, and Z-index.” Some of the layouts use floats, which, you'll recall, are not a positioning scheme but do enable you to create columnar layouts. The combination of floating and positioning is common as well, and you'll get to see examples of that in action.
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