Box Model defines properties of: display, width, height, padding, border, margin, background, overflow, and visibility. : Box model Basics « Style Basics « HTML / CSS






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Box Model defines properties of: display, width, height, padding, border, margin, background, overflow, and visibility.

  

<!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;
  overflow: visible;
  visibility: visible;
  width: 160px;
  height: 150px;
  padding: 30px;
  border-top: 30px solid gray;
  border-bottom: 30px solid black;
  border-left: 30px solid gray;
  border-right: 30px solid black;
  margin-left: 230px;
  margin-top: 80px;
  background-color: #ccc;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>


<h1>Box Model</h1> 

<div class="box"></div> 

</body> 
</html>








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