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CSS3 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Cascading Style Sheets Language
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CSS3 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Cascading Style Sheets Language

by Mikael Olsson
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
2h 45m
English
Apress
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Mikael OlssonCSS3 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4903-1_16

16. Box Model

Mikael Olsson1 
(1)
Hammarland, Finland
 
The so-called box model of CSS describes the space that is taken up by an HTML element. In this model, each element consists of four boxes: content, padding, border, and margin, as illustrated in Figure 16-1.
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Figure 16-1

CSS box model

Each of the three boxes surrounding the content can have different sizes on the top, right, bottom, and left of the element. Any or all of these sizes can also be set to zero.

Inline and Block

HTML has two primary categories of elements: block and inline. The box model ...

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