Before style sheets came along, you had to rely on HTML markup to control backgrounds, colors, fonts, and text sizes on Web pages. With style sheets on the scene, however, designers could now separate style information from content -- meaning they could use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control font, color, and other style information.

Why bother? Simple. When you use CSS, you get the following:

• Better control when updating or editing formatting information.
• No more HTML documents cluttered with <font> tags.
• More options for formatting text, such as defining line height, font weight, and text alignment, and converting text to uppercase (capital letters) or lowercase characters.

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Page 165, Figure 10-1: Font family (display view) (code view)

Page 166, Figure 10-2: Font size (display view) (code view)

Page 167, Figure 10-3: Quotation class (display view) (code view)

Page 168, Figure 10-4: Kerning fonts (display view) (code view)

Page 170, Figure 10-5: Positioning (display view) (code view)

Page 171, Figure 10-6: Text treatments (display view) (code view)

Page 173, Figure 10-7: Capitalization (display view) (code view)

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