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How to use This Book: Intro

1. Getting to Know HTML: The Language of the Web

2. Going Further, with Hypertext: Meeting the ‘HT’ in HTML

3. Building Blocks: Web Page Construction

4. Getting Connected: A Trip to Webville

5. Adding Images to Your Pages: Meeting the Media

6. Standards, Compliance, and all that Jazz: Serious HTML

7. Moving to XHTML: Putting an ‘X’ into HTML

8. Getting Started with CSS: Adding a Little Style

9. Styling with Fonts and Colors: Expanding your Vocabulary

10. The Box Model: Getting Intimate with Elements

The lounge gets an upgrade

The new and improved, ultra-stylish lounge

Setting up the new lounge

Starting with a few simple upgrades

A very quick test drive

One more adjustment

Checking out the new line height

Getting ready for some major renovations

A closer look at the box model

What you can do to boxes

Meanwhile back at the lounge...

Creating the guarantee style

A test drive of the paragraph border

Padding, border, and margins for the guarantee

Adding some padding

A test drive with some padding

Now let’s add some margin

A test drive with the margin

Adding a background image

Test driving the background image

Fixing the background image

Another test drive of the background image

How do you add padding only on the left?

Are we there yet?

How do you increase the margin just on the right?

A two-minute guide to borders

Border fit and finish

Congratulations!

The id attribute

But how do I use id in CSS?

Using an id in the lounge

Remixing style sheets

Using multiple style sheets

Style sheets - they’re not just for desktop browsers anymore...

11. Divs and Spans: Advanced Web Construction

12. Layout and Positioning: Arranging Elements

13. Tables and More Lists: Getting Tabular

14. XHTML Forms: Getting Interactive

A. Leftovers: The Top Ten Topics (we didn’t cover)

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Now let’s add some margin

Margins are easy to add using CSS. Like padding, you can specify the margin as a percentage or in pixels. You’re going to add a 30-pixel margin around the entire guarantee paragraph. Here’s how you do that:

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