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The box model

By Steve Monas - Last updated: Monday, June 14, 2010

At the top level the web page is a canvas—a container for other elements that have to be placed in it. It can be seen as a box, which has a specific dimension—x and y coordinate and a z-axis that flows away from the viewer into 3D space. Each element that is placed into the [...]