B://B: Box Model
posted on 1 Mar 12
My previous post went off the trail a bit from my original intent for my new series of web development: back to basics. This week we are back with what I hope will be the ‘ah-ha’ moment for some people out there and just a nice refresher for the others. When talking about the box-model in css-based layouts, what we are referring to is that all elements on a web page are a rectangle box of some kind. What this means is that there is a behavior to how the browser calculates the width and height of these elements of themselves and the relationship of one element to another.