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Structure and Layout with HTML
Aside from formatting text, HTML gives us a set of tools for defining areas of a webpage. While they don’t affect the way a page looks (that’s what CSS is for), it’s yet another way to apply semantic meaning to webpages for users and anything else that’s reading the page.
In this chapter, you’ll learn the kinds of areas you can create on a page, find out more about block versus inline elements, and get a preview of the CSS box model. Let’s dive in!
Webpage Layout
If you’ve been to any website, you’ll know that the items on a page are grouped into areas with specific functions, such as a header, ...
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