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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Basic Layout Basic Layout Review

Posted by danielaubuchon
danielaubuchon
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How does the browser calculate an element's total width value?

please tell me lol

1 Answer

SRIMUGAN J
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SRIMUGAN J
SRIMUGAN J
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Hi Daniel,

The answer you are looking for was

The browser adds any left/right padding and border-width values to the width value we define.

Note: if you set the box-sizing value as border-box , it does not take any padding and border-width values. Whatever you declare the width is the total width of the element.

Hope this helps :)