Color values

Use the color triplets below to define colors in HTML and JavaScript. You can use the names (literals) in JavaScript and pages that will be read only in Netscape Navigator 2.

The left column below shows colors in Internet Explorer only. If you're using Netscape Navigator 2.0, you can use my Color Schemer to view color combinations.

complex subject of horizontal formatting.

8.2.1.1. Height

Ingeneral, the height of an element is determined by its content. Thiscan be affected by its width, of course; the skinnier a paragraphbecomes, for example, the taller it has to be in order to contain allof the textual (and other) content.

value), and thick. These keywords don'tnecessarily correspond to any particular width but are simply definedin relation to one another. According to the specification,thick is always wider thanmedium , which is in turn always wider thanthin.

However, the exact widths are not defined, so one user agent couldset them to be equivalent to 5px ,3px , and 2px , while another

Figure 4-31. Baseline alignment of an image

4.1.3.2. Superscripting and subscripting

The declaration vertical-align: sub causes the element to be " subscripted." In general, this means that the element's baseline (or bottom, if it's a replaced element) is lowered with respect to its

As the last part of Figure 4-57 shows, the valuenone turns off any decoration which mightotherwise have been applied to an element. This is usually thedefault appearance for text, but not always. For example,links are usually underlined by default.If you wished to suppress the underlining ofhyperlinks, a CSS rule to do sowould be:

width. In order to avoid this problem, make surethat you declare a width for your floated elements. Otherwise, youcould get something like Figure 7-66.

Figure 7-66. Floated text without an explicit width

7.6.1.1. Backgrounds and floats

There are many other interesting effectsassociated with floating elements. Take the example of a shortdocument, composed of no more than a few paragraphs and