For more advanced formatting, Web designers use a variety of techniques based on style sheets to customized components of a Web page and Web site. These include padding and margin and width settings to indent and line up paragraphs, headings, tables, and other components. In addition to using tables for layout, modern browsers can also use layers to locate components exactly on the Web page, and layers are bing used mroe and more. All this is achieved using style sheets and you will want to research CSS to learn more. Since this course is not a complete HTML/CSS course, we’re just introducing general concepts.
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