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Craig Grannell

"The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design"


The thumbnailsContainer div contains an unordered list, each item from which contains
a linked thumbnail image, and an example of which is shown in the following code block:
  • A docked<br>?‚ boat.

  • Again, the various elements of the code are explained in the aforementioned exercises
    from Chapter 5. The only difference here is the use of the list, which is used to provide
    structure for the 18 images??”as you??™ve seen elsewhere in the book, CSS makes it possible
    to style lists in any manner of ways.
    Styling the gallery
    The pictures-of-padstow.css document contains the styles for this layout, and these
    styles are arranged into sections, as explained earlier in the chapter. The defaults section
    includes two rules. The first is the universal selector (*), used to remove padding and margins
    (as per the ???Zeroing margins and padding on all elements??? section in Chapter 2). The
    second is a body rule with a commented-out background pair. If you remove the CSS comments
    and load the web page into your browser, you??™ll see a background grid, as shown in
    the following screenshot (the baseline grid??™s height is 20 pixels per line). It??™s worth leaving
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    the rules in place when working with baseline grids, because if you make changes to your
    page later, you can temporarily turn the grid back on to ensure rhythm is being maintained.


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