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Mulder's Stylesheets Tutorial
Lesson 5
by Steve Mulder

Page 9 — Review of Lesson 5

You've made it! Welcome to the end of our journey into CSS.

This final lesson covered positioning and layering. Let's quickly review:

position is one of our favorite CSS properties. Now you can put stuff exactly where you want it on a page.
left is how you set an element's horizontal position.
top is how you set vertical position.
width lets you control the width of an element.
height sets the height.
overflow enables you to control how content is treated if it goes over its boundaries.
visibility is for making something disappear.
clip is how you control what parts of an element are visible.
z-index enables you to declare what should be on top when things overlap.

I hope this tutorial has been helpful. Believe it or not, we haven't touched on everything stylesheets has to offer. There are a few properties we didn't even get to, and a multitude of tiny browser bugs that we didn't have time to list. That's why you should know about this:

CSS Resources on the Web

The Official Home of CSS — CSS news and activity at the World Wide Web Consortium, including the official specifications for CSS1 and CSS2.
Webmonkey's Stylesheets Collection — The monkey knows CSS.
Web Review Style Sheets Reference Guide — Charts on exactly what works in what browsers.
CSSCheck — Check the syntax of your CSS code, courtesy of Web Design Group.
CSS Pointers Group — The best source for links to CSS-related stuff.
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets — A Usenet newsgroup for sharing CSS problems and solutions.

Thanks for sticking with me as we've explored the wonders of stylesheets! The clay of the Web is yours to knead and shape. Now go sculpt some cool stuff.