On Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:51:28 am Bobby Jack wrote: > --- On Wed, 8/18/10, Keith Purtell <keithpurt...@keithpurtell.com> wrote: > > First, I don't understand width. > > > > Second, I especially don't understand how he has > > illustrated margin. > > > > Third, the padding. Why is it necessary and how is it > > affecting the the flow of text around my images? > > I don't think anyone's mentioned Firebug yet, which must be a first! It's a > Firefox plugin which is excellent as a debugging tool, a design tool, and > a training tool for those new to CSS. Firebug will (to some extent) answer > your 3 questions - and many more - by providing visual feedback, in your > browser, of how various styles affect the design. > > http://getfirebug.com/ > > I recommend it as an absolute must for any web design work. >
there's also the Webkit developer console, which is included in Chrome and Safari, and prvides the same functionality (but isn't an add-on), and the deveolper toolbar in IE8, but I can't remember if that's an add-on or not. ---Tim ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
