Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design

Laying the Groundwork

First we need to look over the press release with some basic HTML markup (see Figure 2.1). This needs to be fairly simple structural markup, not the nested-table stuff you usually see. We’ll add in some divs and classes to give ourselves some styling hooks in just a moment.

Figure 2.1. A basic press release, not yet styled with CSS.

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What Happened to the Break?

The <br> was removed from the release div because it’s no longer needed. The line-break effect of the <br> has been replaced by the implicit line ...