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CSS CSS Basics (2014) The Box Model Display Values

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Dan Weru
Dan Weru
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It’s meant to behave that way. Inline elements take only as much space as they need. Not only will text-align declarations not work but also padding and margin declarations will fail to take effect. If you want to center align text, use inline-block instead.