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    copied!<p>In light of the answers to the original question I had, I have amended my code. I was hoping if someone could tell me if this is a better approach in comparison. My original post and code is below. </p> <p><strong>UPDATED CODE</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" /&gt; &lt;meta name="keywords" content="" /&gt; &lt;meta name="description" content="" /&gt; &lt;meta name="author" content= "" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Example&lt;/title&gt; &lt;base href="" /&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="" /&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } #wrapper { } #header { background-image: url('images/bg-inner-page.gif'); height: 200px; } #logo { float: left; margin-top: 50px; margin-left: 100px; } #topnav { float: right; margin-top: 50px; margin-right: 1250px; } #topnav ul { word-spacing: 10px; } #topnav ul li { list-style-type: none; display: inline; } #content { background-color: orange; } #footer { background-color: blue; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="wrapper"&gt; &lt;div id="header"&gt; &lt;div id="logo"&gt; logo &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="topnav"&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;home&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;about&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;browse&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;faq&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;contact&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="content"&gt;content&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="footer"&gt;footer&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>ORIGINAL POST</strong></p> <p>I am new to the world of coding as well as CSS. I am attempting to line up CSS elements however unaware how I can place some sort of lines to get the exact line-height, position, etc. I attempted to use FireBug however to no avail. Is there some of tool I can use that possible places a grid over the canvas?</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>Here is a sample of the code I am working with.</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" /&gt; &lt;meta name="keywords" content="" /&gt; &lt;meta name="description" content="" /&gt; &lt;meta name="author" content= "" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Example&lt;/title&gt; &lt;base href="" /&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="" /&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; body { margin: 0; padding: 0; } #wrapper { } #header { background-image: url('images/bg-inner-page.gif'); height: 200px; } #logo { width: 20px; position: relative; top: 50px; left: 100px; } #topnav { width: 500px; position: relative; top: 14px; left: 150px; } #topnav ul { word-spacing: 10px; } #topnav ul li { list-style-type: none; display: inline; word-spacing: 10px; } #content { background-color: orange; } #footer { background-color: blue; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="wrapper"&gt; &lt;div id="header"&gt; &lt;div id="logo"&gt; logo &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="topnav"&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;home&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;about&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;browse&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;faq&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;contact&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="content"&gt;content&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="footer"&gt;footer&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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