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Unit 6 Website Development - Tutorial 2

2.17 Use display properties such as block, inline and inline-block

Control how elements sit on the page.

What You Are Adding

Display controls how an element behaves in layout. Block elements start on a new line, inline elements sit within a line of text, and inline-block elements sit in a line but can still have width, height and padding.

CSS To Add To css/style.css

Add or adapt this CSS in the stylesheet you created in Tutorial 1. Keep the HTML structure from Tutorial 1 and use CSS to improve the presentation.

a.button-link {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 10px 14px;
    background-color: #365fd0;
    color: white;
}

Expected Output

Normal text inline keeps flowing.

inline-block button link

Build It Yourself

  1. Open the same unit-6-website folder from Tutorial 1.
  2. Add or update the relevant HTML class names if this page uses classes.
  3. Add the CSS shown above to css/style.css.
  4. Save the stylesheet and refresh the website in the browser.
  5. Compare your page with the expected output preview.

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