This lesson was a good one. We expanded our cascading stylesheets toolbox to include the realm of typography and layout, where the spacing and alignment of text and images are under our control. It's a wondrous land, because in it we can do things that simply aren't possible now with plain ol' HTML tags.

Here are the stylesheets properties we covered:

• word-spacing defines the space between words.

• letter-spacing controls the kerning or space between individual characters.

• line-height is the key to leading, the vertical space between lines of text.

• text-align enables you to left-align, right-align, center, or justify paragraphs.

• vertical-align is for vertically aligning text.

• text-indent can give indents to paragraphs.

• All the margin properties specify margins surrounding text blocks, images, and so on.

• And the padding properties are for padding.

• The border properties define the width, color, and style of borders.

• float and clear are for controlling how elements wrap around one another.