Understanding the Box Model
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When designing the CSS system, its developers needed to come up with a method of taking into account not just the elements being styled, but also their relationship to other elements, mainly with regard to spacing.
It was decided that there were three main areas to cover, which were padding, borders, and margins, with everything else applying to the contents of an element. Because HTML documents appear like boxes within ...
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