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Chapter 8. Formatting Paragraphs with CSS

In this chapter, you will:

• Indenting Paragraphs

• Applying a Border to a Paragraph

• Specifying the Horizontal Alignment of a Paragraph

• Specifying Vertical Space within a Paragraph

In Chapter 7, you learned how to use style rules to apply character formatting, including font style, size, and color. Now you can go a step further and apply those concepts to paragraph formatting.

Paragraph formatting refers to the layout of entire paragraphs, not the placement or spacing of individual characters. For example, a paragraph can be double-spaced, but an individual character cannot be double-spaced. You saw some style-based paragraph formatting in Chapter 4, when you applied bullet characters and numbering styles. Later, ...