Chapter 7. Basic Visual Formatting

many of the questions we skipped over earlier in the interest of addressing how CSS is implemented.

could hope to cover every possible way of combining properties and effects. You will obviously go on to discover new ways of using CSS for your own document effects.

In the course of exploring CSS, you may encounter seemingly strange behaviors in user agents. With a thorough grasp of how the visual rendering model works in CSS, you'll be able to determine whether a behavior is a correct (if unexpected) consequence of the rendering engine CSS defines or whether you've stumbled across a bug that needs to be reported.