width sets the width of an element's inner box.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> * .box { display: static; width: 160px; height: 150px; background-color: #ccc; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Box Model</h1> <div class="box"></div> </body> </html>