HTML and CSS [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Chapter 12. Positioning, Floats, and Z-index

If you've been having a good time adding color, backgrounds, text styles, and margins to your pages, the fun has just begun. You'll be expanding your knowledge (which, at this point in the book should be quite sophisticated) to include the most significant aspects of CSS to be put to use in the past few years.

The combination of technologies you'll be working with in this chapter will provide you with the basis for what you need to know about creating great CSS-based layouts, instead of the table-based ones discussed so often in this book. Fortunately, contemporary browsers have enough CSS supportand we have enough knowledge of workaroundsto apply these techniques to create great-looking pages.

Positioning refers to the scheme in CSS that enables you to use elements to create boxes and move them around in relation to the document and browser. You'll learn what these schemes are and how to begin applying them.