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When viewing the source HTML code of a page, it’s readily apparent that the content is separated using HTML tags. Paragraphs of text are surrounded by <p> and </p> tags, the main navigational menu is surrounded by <nav> and </nav> tags, and so forth. The HTML is defining what content is nested inside what other content on the page—it’s defining the content’s structure. It’s like a rough sketch of the layout of a house, which shows what rooms go where but doesn’t indicate their exact dimensions, color, or other properties of their appearance. The task of describing the appearance of a web page is left to the domain of CSS.
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1 In Firefox, the calc() notation requires a vendor prefix, so only –moz-calc() will be recognized.
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Casario, M. et al. (2012). CSS Box Model
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In: CSS3 Solutions. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4336-6_6
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