in publishing, is the process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information in a manner that creates an effective presentation.
in gymnastics it is a maneuver that consists of a full vertical rotation while the body is flat, essentially 'laying out'.
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Layout has unusual and hard to predict effects on the display of boxes, as well as implications for their descendant elements.
Float layouts relying on that bug in IE cannot be transferred to work in a compliant browser without a general re-do.
The layout concept as a whole is not compatible to a number of basic CSS concepts of the visual formatting model, namely containing, the flow, floating, positioning and layering.
A layout engine is typically used for web browsers, email clients, or other applications that require the displaying (and editing) of web contents.
For example Trident, the layout engine from Internet Explorer, is used by many applications on the Microsoft Windows platform to render HTML, as in the mini-browser in Winamp.
The Mozilla project's layout engine, Gecko, is commonly referred to only as a layout engine, as unlike with Trident or Opera's Presto, the main application (the Mozilla application suite) is less used than other browsers based on the engine such as Mozilla Firefox.