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This section describes how CSS is used in hyPub to support the default Web page layouts.

hyPub does include a CSS file called _hypub.css that contains a number of interesting settings to support the default Web page layout.

1. CSS properties assigned to the "body" element to set a dark background color; align the border layout to the center of the window; select verdana as the font; set the font size to 12px. I used px as the fond size instead of pt. 

body {background-color: #a0a0a0; margin: 0px; 
   font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; 
   text-align: center;}

2. In order to put my book Web pages on the center of the browser window, I used a "div" element right inside the "body" element as <body><div class="body"> ... </div></body>. This "div" element is assigned with the following CSS properties to move the page to the center of the window and a witdh of 780 pixels: 

div.body {margin: auto; width: 780px;}

3. hyPub uses "p" elements to define variables. We need to hide those elements on Web pages using this CSS setting: 

p.variable {display: none;}

4. hyPub provides a default layout called border layout using a "table" element. Here are the CSS properties to control how each area will look like in the border layout: 

table.frame {width: 750px; height: 100px; 
   border: 0px solid transparent; margin-left: 0px; 
   padding: 0px; background-color: transparent;}
td.frameTop {border-width: 0px; background-color: #a0a0a0;}
td.frameLeft {background-color: #fbfbfb; vertical-align: top;}
td.frameCenter {border-width: 0px; background-color: #a0a0a0; 
   vertical-align: top; width: 650px; height: 200px;}
td.frameRight {background-color: #fbfbfb; vertical-align: top;}
td.frameBottom {border-width: 0px; background-color: #a0a0a0;}

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Suggested CSS Definitions for Book Web Pages