Normal Flow
The term normal flow refers to the normal behavior of the browser. As you've surely noticed, everything defaults to the left of the browser unless otherwise modified by HTML or CSS. Consider Example 12-1.
Example 12-1. Unstyled content to help visualize normal flow in a browser
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>working with style</title></head><body><h1>The Black Cat</h1><h2>By Edgar Allen Poe</h2><p>I married early, and was <a href="http://www.poemuseum.org/">happy to find</a> in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own. Observing my partiality fordomestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable ...
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