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CSS CSS Foundations The Box Model The CSS Box Model Concept

Richard Lu
Richard Lu
20,185 Points
Posted by Richard Lu
Richard Lu
20,185 Points

text-align: center vs margin: 0 auto

does the text-align: center property automatically make the paragraph element into a block model?

Matthew Greenberg
Matthew Greenberg
8,173 Points

No It does not; however, most every element in the html dom has a default display block property.

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Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points
Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points

No, keep in mind that text-align does not add direct margins to an element. And the paragraph element is naturally a block-level element. See more on Mozilla Developer Network: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/p