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OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide Create, optimize, and deploy stunning cross-browser web maps with the OpenLayers JavaScript web mapping library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
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ISBN-13 9781849514125
Length 372 pages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

OpenLayers 2.10
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with OpenLayers FREE CHAPTER 2. Squashing Bugs With Firebug 3. The 'Layers' in OpenLayers 4. Wrapping Our Heads Around Projections 5. Interacting with Third Party APIs 6. Taking Control of Controls 7. Styling Controls 8. Charting the Map Class 9. Using Vector Layers 10. Vector Layer Style Guide 11. Making Web Map Apps Index

Time for Action – using external CSS files


Let's create a simple page using an external CSS style sheet file (a .css file), making use of IDs and classes.

  1. Create a new, empty HTML file. We'll just make a basic HTML5 page with a few <div> tags to demonstrate CSS inheritance. We'll also include a <link> tag that will reference a CSS file created in the next step, which contains all our CSS code.

  2. First, we'll need to start the HTML page with a DOCTYPE tag that tells browsers this is an HTML5 standard page. Then, we'll need an html tag and a head tag, which contains some meta information (such as a title tag), and our JavaScript and CSS file links.

    <!DOCTYPE html> 
    <html lang='en'> 
    <head> 
        <meta charset='utf-8' /> 
        <link rel='stylesheet' href='ex1_style.css' /> 
        <title>Ugly_Webpage_01</title> 
    </head>
  3. Now, we'll need to create a body tag which will contain our page's actual content. We'll also put in some div tags, which act...

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