Feb 3, 2010 · The space between two frames is the margin. With this in mind, a good rule of thumb is to use margin when you want to space an element in relationship to other elements on the wall, and …

Mar 11, 2013 · The box-sizing property can be used to adjust this behavior: content-box gives you the default CSS box-sizing behavior. If you set an element's width to 100 pixels, then the element's …

May 11, 2011 · The main difference between margin and padding is that margin helps to create space around the element outside the border, while padding helps to create space around the element …

Which means, that if you set an element width to 200px and then add a padding of 20px on both horizontal end, this would result to a total width of 240px for that element. to fix this, you simply need …

Aug 31, 2013 · This Stack Overflow post explains why padding:auto is not valid in CSS and offers alternative solutions for dynamic padding adjustments.

How do you make an absolute positioned element honor the padding of its parent? I want an inner div to stretch across the width of its parent and to be positioned at the bottom of that parent, basi...

As a start you could try to affect all elements with * {margin: 0; padding: 0;} in your extrernal style sheet. I use to do this when debugging. Then set margin/padding locally on the individual elements (as you …

Jan 15, 2011 · In this model, the width of an element does not include padding or borders. For example: #foo { width: 10em; padding: 2em; border: 1em; } will actually be 16em wide: 10em + 2em padding …

Jul 16, 2012 · I see you're trying to vertically center the element, so why do you have to set margin-top:-8px; and not margin-top:-50%;? Well, vertical centering in CSS is harder than it should be. When …

Jul 3, 2010 · What does auto do in margin: 0 auto;? I can't seem to understand what auto does. I know it sometimes has the effect of centring objects.