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Inherit the background, padding, and border of the div tag

  


<!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">
div {
  background-color: #ccc;
  color: black;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  border-left: 1px solid gray;
  border-right: 2px solid black;
  border-top: 1px solid gray;
  border-bottom: 2px solid black;
}

p {
  background-color: blue;
}

label {
  background-color: gold;
}

span {
  background-color: red;
}

code {
  background-color: firebrick;
  color: white;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div> 

<p> 
<label> 
<span> 
Inherit the background, padding, and border of the division. <br /> 


</span> 
</label> 
</p> 
</div> 


</body> 
</html>








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