Previewing the Box Model in the Browser
Explore how to use browser developer tools to preview the CSS box model. Understand how content, padding, border, and margin areas are displayed for HTML elements, and learn how to recreate the box model visually with CSS. This lesson helps beginners grasp the fundamental CSS layout concept by inspecting elements directly in the browser.
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The box model is a crucial concept to understand in CSS. When a browser renders an element on the screen, it always uses this box model to calculate how the element will look.
The box model is so important that any modern browser’s dev tools utility has a special preview. Its preview shows the information on every HTML element you inspect using the dev tools inspector.
Overview
Let’s say we have a piece of content, for example, the words “This is how” printed on the screen.
Of course, this content could be any other number of words. It could even be an ...