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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition

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Ch. 1. The Web and HTML

Ch. 3. The Amazing Em Unit and Other Best Practices

Ch. 4. CSS Selectors

Ch. 6. The Fundamental Objects

Ch. 7. Space Inside Boxes

Ch. 8. Space Around Boxes

Margins and the Margin Properties

Using the Margin Property

Common Uses of the Margin Properties

The Padding Properties

Using the Padding Property

The Border Properties Group

The Border-Color Properties

The Border-Style Properties

The Border-Width Properties

Using the Border-Width Property

The Border Properties

Using the Border Property

Working with the Border Properties

Outline Borders

Collapsing Margins

The Width Property

The Height Property

The Float Property

The Clear Property

Minimum and Maximum Widths and Heights

The Whole Story on Width Computation

Case 1: No Value is “Auto”

Case 2: One Value is “Auto”

Case 3: Two or Three of the Three Values are “Auto”

The Overflow Property

Ch. 9. Relative and Absolute Positioning

Ch. 11. From HTML Extensions to CSS

Ch. 12. Printing and Other Media

Ch. 13. Cascading and Inheritance

Ch. 14. External Style Sheets

Ch. 15. Other Approaches

Ch. 16. XML Documents

Ch. 18. The CSS Saga

Appx. A. HTML 4.0 Quick Reference

Appx. B. Reading Property Value Definitions

Appx. C. System Colors

CSS Quick Reference

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The Height Property

The height property sets the height of the element. As with the width property, the height property is seldom used with block-level elements, and its use in those cases may lead to some complications. This property is used most often with images.

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