Adding the Left Column Open the basiclayout.css file and create room at the bottom to add a new selector. Once you do this, complete t …
Organizing the Columns At the moment you have the two columns roughly in position, although you still have some work to do to give the …
Floating the Content Your first job here is to locate the the two clearing divs in the basiclayout.html page and delete them. Do that n …
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Restyling the Unordered Navigation List Begin by making changes to your #leftcol #nav ul selector. It should currently look similar to …
Making Changes to the Link Styles To change the default, or inactive, state of the links in your new navigation system, you first need …
Moving the Navigation At the end of Part 4, I set a little exercise for you to add an h1 title and p elements into the leftcol div. How …
Making Structural Changes in the HTML Document Open basiclayout.html in the Code view of Dreamweaver. Because you need to make some pre …
Adding Hover and Focus Styling With the hover and focus styles you are going to use a little border trickery to make the links act more …
Adding a Background Image Making two columns appear to be the same length is very easy to accomplish using background images. You will …
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Should I Float or Should I Position? That is the question! You have already learned that to have two block-level elements, like divs, s …
Major Problem with Absolute Positioning As I see it, the major problem with absolute positioning is this: You cannot clear an absolutel …
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Adding Default Properties to the Body Rule Let’s begin by building on the body rule you created in Part 1. There you created thre …
Setting a Default Font Size for the p Element Your next task is to set a default font size for the p element. You haven’t created …