Basic text formatting: Lab

Controlling the text formatting of a simple page doesn't require a tremendous amount of planning or execution. However, when controlling a site, especially a complex site, even the simplest text formatting requires thinking about how to apply the formatting efficiently, and in a way that doesn't change the formatting that you need for other elements. In this lab, you are going to return to the desolve.org site and focus on controlling the site's typography. You'll need to utilize many of the properties that you've learned in this chapter as well as put some thought into writing the most efficient selectors possible to achieve the desired formatting.

Let's take a look at the goals that we have for our text formatting lab. I'm in the 04_15 folder and I've opened up the index.htm along with the main.css file which can be found in the same directory in the _css file. Now if I preview this page in a browser just to kind of show you what's going on here, a lo...