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Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom
by Jeremy Osborn, Jennifer Smith, AGI Creative Team
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h
English
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Lesson 6: Formatting Text with CSS
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to control the appearance of text on your web pages using CSS styling.
What you’ll learn in this lesson:
• Using the font-family property
• Setting the size of your text
• Working with the em measurement
• Changing text properties
• Using HTML lists
Starting up
You will work with several files from the web06lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure you have loaded the weblessons folder onto your hard-drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/webdesign. See “Loading lesson files” in the Starting Up section of this book.
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Although this lesson uses the TextWrangler text editor to create the markup, you can use any of the text editors covered in Lesson 3 and get the same results. |
The importance of typography on the web
Typography ...
