Chapter 8. CSS 101

CSS 101

We've spent the first half of the book building a solid foundation, teaching you to create markup using well-structured XHTML. Now it's time to add some style to your well-crafted web pages using CSS.

The impatient among you have been waiting for this chapter for some time or have possibly cheated and skipped a few chapters, perhaps because you mistakenly think this chapter marks the beginning of the "design" chapters. If you can recognize yourself in this description, particularly if you skipped the first half of the book because you wanted to dive straight into CSS, please—we urge you—skip back a few chapters.

Why?

Simple. We've ...

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