If you’ve learned CSS from the ground up, you should have a good understanding of the box model. But if you’re unfamiliar ...

HTML and CSS use a box model, which means that page elements include margins, padding, background colors and, optionally, decorative borders. Open your HTML Web page in a text editor such as Notepad.

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