Datasheet

Part I: Getting to Know (X)HTML and CSS

Markup lives in a text file (with your content) to give orders to a browser. For

example, look at the page shown in Figure 1-2. You can see how the page is

made up and how it is formatted by examining its underlying HTML.

Figure 1-2: To achieve its present good looks, this Web page incorporates multiple parts and

numerous bits of HTML and CSS markup.

This page includes an image, a heading that describes the page, several para-

graphs of text about one of your authors, and an address block with links to a

résumé and a list of publications.

However, different components of the page use different formatting:

✓ The heading at the top of the page is larger than text in the paragraphs.

✓ Blocks of text are separated by more blank space than between contigu-

ous lines of text within blocks.

✓ Some text is in white, some orange, and some light blue.

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