Editing the CSS for Your Layout

After you create a page, you will want to make additional edits in order to make it lay out exactly as you expect. You will always want to work in Split view when doing CSS layout, because there are some tricky concepts at play. SharePoint Designer is the first application to provide a WYSIWYG design surface for CSS layout editing; as such, there are some areas that need improvement and will require you to jump into the code to make some tweaks.

In the exercise later in this section, you will modify the CSS behind the page layout that you created in the previous exercise, to create areas in which you can insert SharePoint content later. In order to be truly effective at modifying CSS layout, you need to be comfortable ...

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