/* Make sure you've got a page with well-formed standards based HTML 4.01, link it to this style sheet and you should see the result straight away. */ /* The element is just that, an element. So there's no reason why you can't give it its own style then make it appear around the using a margin - that's all we do here. You might even like to add your own background image properties to this element to get an even more dynamic effect. */ html {background-color: #bdbf8e;} body {margin: 3%; background-color: #e4e9c1; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: .8em; border: 5px #486ba1 solid;} /* The following gives a special effect for

elements which works best if there is only one of them on at the top of each page - so they are a sort of title. / h1 {background-color: #486ba1; margin: 0px; color: #bdbf8e; font-size: 1.8em; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: right; letter-spacing: 2px; font-style: italic; border-bottom: 20px #bdbf8e solid;} h2 {background-color: #486ba1; color: #e4e9c1; padding-right: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-top: .5%; padding-bottom: .5%; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.6em; text-align: left; margin: 0px;} h3 {border-bottom: 2px #486ba1 solid; font-size: 1.3em; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: #486ba1; text-align: left; padding-left: 3px;} h4 {color: #486ba1; padding-right: 3%; padding-left: 3%; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; text-align: left;} / The following four selectors allow you to select links when they are in the four different states: link - before they have been visited, visited - after it has been visited, hover - when the mouse is over the link, active - when the user clicks the link. / a:link {text-decoration: none; background-color: #6d6c40; color: white;} a:visited {text-decoration: none; background-color: #6d6c40; color: white;} a:hover {background-color: #424227;} a:active {background-color: #422015;} p {margin-left: 3%; margin-right: 3%; margin-top: 2%; margin-bottom: 2%;} blockquote {background-color: #a8d9f0; color: #486ba1; font-style: italic; margin-right: 6%; margin-left: 6%; font-weight: bold; padding: 5px;} / This section of the style sheet has just a few selectors and properties to help you find your way around adding style to regular, standards-based HTML 4.01 tables (ie, a table to be used for presenting tabular information). / / The following selector selects the table as a whole and gives it a background color and a border. The last couple of properties might be unfamiliar to you. border-collapse allows you to specify that adjacent borders should collapse onto one another. border-spacing allows you to specify a gap between the borders of cells in a table, or in this case that there should be no gap. You'll find these properties in Style Master on the Display Type Editor. / table {border: 1px #486ba1 solid; display: table; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: #a8d9f0; color: #486ba1; margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; width: auto;} / Using the element for cells in the top row of an HTML table means that it is easy to apply a different style to this row and make it stand out from the rest of the table. */ th {text-align: left; background-color: #486ba1; color: #e4e9c1;} td, th {border: 1px #486ba1 solid; padding: 5px;}