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This is the first post in a short series on how to use Cascading Style Sheets to control the layout of HTML web pages.  To get the most out of this series, you should already know some basic HTML & CSS, which you will find in the HTML & CSS Day Course. CSS Positioning is [...]

Before leaping straight into how to use CSS to control your page layouts, we first need to have a closer look at how an HTML page is constructed.  I'm talking about something called the "HTML box model". Sound intimidating? Its actually ridiculously simple.   Understanding the box model is both essential to everything else that follows [...]

In the previous post, we looked at how an HTML page structure could be expressed as a series of boxes.  In this post I want to show you a new HTML tag that is used a lot in CSS Positioning:  The div tag. CSS Positioning at its simplest, consists of two tasks: Use html to [...]

In this post we are finally going to do some CSS positioning.  We will start by creating a simple page that looks like this: OK – very simple layout indeed!  But we are starting with basics here.  Soon things will get more complicated.  For the moment, what we are trying to achieve is to have [...]