VirtualMV/CSS/Layout

Introduction

Layout with styles has several advantages:

• Good for liquid layouts, that expand/contract depending on size of the monitor being used to view your page.
• Allows you to modify a layout using a CSS for many pages that use the same "block" structure.
• Tends to produce smaller files.
• Conforms to current (and therefore future) standards

The disadvantages are that:

• older browsers may or may not display the styles correctly if at all.
• different browsers may not display the content in the same way.

Cascading Style Sheets By the end of this page you will be able to:

Box Model (3D Document Object Model view)

CSS treats every element as if it is surrounded by an invisible box.

In Firefox you can see a 3D visualisation of the box model if you

• Right click on page > Inspect element >
• Click on the "Toolbox options" gear icon (tool bar lower right), scroll to the bottom of the options and check 3D view (this will add a 3D box to a lower browser bar) For instructions
• Click on the box 3D View (bottom right) then Drag the page around = shows page divs layered (Press [F12] to make the developer option appear/disappear)

Firefox: 3D view showing box model of virtualmv.com

Using Div for Layouts - Tutorials

• w3schools - Also explains the new HTML5 layout tags
• A beginners guide
• For more complicated positioning of elements on a page

Interactive css layouts

Sample from learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/

• Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/

Reference Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps. (2006)[1]

Examples

• 2013, March Overview of current cyber attacks (logged by 97 Sensors )
  • Resize the page in your web browser. Notice how the blocks shift logically.
  • http://www.sicherheitstacho.eu/

References

virtualMV  |  Superquick wiki guide  |  Please give me some feedback

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