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Web Design Playground, Second Edition
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Web Design Playground, Second Edition

by Paul McFedries
February 2024
Beginner
440 pages
10h 39m
English
Manning Publications
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4 Formatting Your Web Page

This chapter covers

  • Styling the text font, size, and style
  • Aligning and indenting paragraphs
  • Adding text and background colors

You now know how to display important and emphasized text, create links and headings, and show items in bulleted or numbered lists, but although these important techniques give your web page a bit of visual interest, they won’t win you any design awards. To get people to sit up and take notice of your page, you need to concentrate on the CSS side of things for a bit, and that’s what you’ll do in this chapter.

First, you’ll learn a few ways to style your web page text, including specifying the typeface you want to use and setting the size of the text. You’ll also learn how to apply bold to ...

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