At our November meeting, we took the float and clear properties, combined them with the DIV tag and the box model, and began formatting text on a page.
We started with a single column and centered it by making left and right margins auto. We pointed out that these properties do not work in Internet Explorer unless a DOCTYPE is declared.
We then worked on a two-column, fluid layout. In the process, we discussed another Internet Explorer box model problem, that being the way IE calculated width in earlier versions of the browser. Again, declaring a DOCTYPE solves the problem.
We had an extra thirty minutes this month, and we spent the time reviewing CSS editors and validation sites. Links to these utilities have been added to the CSS Resources Page of this site (see sidebar).
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