Box Models

Abstract

The fundamental design pattern in CSS is the Box Model. The Box Model defines how elements are rendered as boxes. There are six main types of boxes: inline, inline-block, block, table, absolute, and floated. A browser renders each element as one of these boxes. Some elements are rendered in a variation of one of these boxes, such as a list item or table cell. For example, list-item is a block box with an inline marker automatically created by the browser, and table-cell is a block box that does not support margins.