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Style basic layout properties

Style basic layout properties

- [Narrator] Handling page layout is probably the most difficult aspect of working with CSS. Flexbox and CSS grid promise to solve many of the problems that have faced web designers for years, but the burning question is when should you start using them? Do you want your pages to break in older browsers? Well, the CSS designer in Dreamweaver CC 2017 takes a conservative approach. It doesn't support either Flexbox or CSS grids. There are code hints for hand coding Flexbox in code view, but at the time of recording this video, there are no code hints for CSS grids, so in this exercise I'm gonna focus on using tried and tested techniques that are supported by the CSS designer. Before starting I'd like to draw your attention to something in the style sheet, main.css, so select it in the related files bar and it's these two style rules right at the very beginning. The first selector, html, sets the box sizing property to border box, this resets the traditional CSS box model to include…

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