Chapter 6. The CSS Box Model

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  • How web content is displayed visually in CSS as boxes

  • What categories of display elements are used and how you can affect an element’s display type

  • How CSS browsers interpret and display web pages

  • How to set margins, borders, and padding on a box

This hour explores the core of Cascading Style Sheets—the part of the specification that defines how parts of a web page are displayed: as stacks of boxes. The visual presentation of CSS is defined as a series of boxes based on the structure of the original document.

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Displaying Content in CSS

The content of a web page is the information encoded within the HTML page, found between the opening and closing tags of ...

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