London is the capital of England. It is the most populous city in the United Kingdom, with a metropolitan area of over 13 million inhabitants.
Found on the banks of River Thames, London is a major settlement for more than two millennia, with its history speaking of its founding by the Romans, who had named the city as Londinium.
HTML Layout Elements
Websites are displaying contents in multiple columns (similar to a magazine or newspaper).
HTML5 has got many new semantic elements which is used to define the different parts of a web page:
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HTML Layout Technics
There are 4 ways for creating multicolumn layouts. Each way consists of its own pros and cons:
Which One to Choose?
The <table> element was not meant to be used as a layout tool! The use of the <table> element is for displaying tabular data. So, you should not use tables for laying out your page ! They will cause a mess into your code. And you canimagine how difficult it would be for redesigning your site after few months.
Tip: NEVER use tables to laying out your page!
CSS Frameworks
For creating your layout fast, make use of a framework, like W3.CSS or Bootstrap.
CSS Floats
It is a very common practice to construct entire web layouts by using the CSS float property. Learning float is easy - you just need to know the working of float and clear properties . Disadvantages: Floating elements are connected to the document flow, that may harm the existing flexibility. We can study more on float in our chapter of CSS Float and Clear o.
Float Example
Situated on the banks of River Seine, it is found at the central place of the Île-de-France region, also known as the région parisienne.
on considering its metropolitan area, it is one of the largest populous city in Europe, having over 12 million inhabitants.
CSS Flexbox
Flexbox is known as a new layout mode of CSS3.
Using flexbox makes sure that elements will be behaving predictably if the page layout needs to accommodate for different screen sizes and different display devices. Disadvantages: It is not working in IE10 and earlier.
You can study more about flexbox in our chapter regarding CSS Flexbox.
Flexbox Example
Situated on the banks of River Seine, it is found at the central place of the Île-de-France region, also known as the région parisienne.
on considering its metropolitan area, it is one of the largest populous city in Europe, having over 12 million inhabitants.