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Manipulating the layout with CSS

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Manipulating the layout with CSS

- [Instructor] CSS is really powerful because it allows me to control the entire layout of my page as well as specific properties. It just does a lot. In fact, let's take a look at this page, I'll go down to Real-time Preview, I'll just check this out in Google Chrome, we can see here it is. This is the current layout and actually what I want to do is I want to actually put this content in a white box and kind of float it in the center. That's the goal and eventually I'll play with this a little more. Okay, but starting out, I'll go jump in here, I'll take a look at this content, it's not just this H2, it's also this paragraph. In fact, it's this section right down here. So with that selected, I can actually add a selector. And the big thing is I want to make sure this selector says, "Section." Okay, so this goes for every section, giving me code hints. I encourage you to click on that, just to make sure you…

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