Chapter 6: Text, Colors, and Backgrounds
next chapter, handle most of today's layout duties beyond the basics covered here, but ultimately the presentation duties of HTML will be alleviated by Cascading Style Sheets, as discussed in Chapter 10. Despite ongoing improvements in browser support of CSS, markup tricks and workarounds are still occasionally required to create visually appealing pages that work in older browsers. Although, in theory, it would be best to avoid these nonstandard techniques, often they are the grim reality of Web design—at least until CSS is better supported by browsers and better understood by developers.