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CSS Box Model
The CSS Box Model is the foundation of layout and design on the web. It dictates how HTML elements are structured as boxes, managing spacing boundaries and overlap rules.
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What You'll Learn
- 1Components of the Box Model: Content, Padding, Border, and Margin
- 2How the browser calculates default element widths and heights
- 3Separating margins (spacing between boxes) from padding (inner space)
- 4Configuring borders: width, style (solid, dashed, dotted), color, and border-radius
- 5Resetting box dimensions using 'box-sizing: border-box' calculations
sandbox.css
.content-box {
width: 200px;
padding: 16px;
border: 2px solid #6366f1;
margin: 24px;
box-sizing: border-box; /* Includes padding & border in width */
}Interactive playground coming soon