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An elastic layout is a style of Web layout design that uses percentages or ems for widths and a max-width style to ensure that the content is not too long. Elastic widths stretch when font sizes are increased or decreased. This is what makes them elastic - they flex to accomodate the browser width and the reader's font preferences.

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