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Box model and layout fundamentals in No-Code - Mini Project: Build & Apply

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Box Model and Layout Fundamentals

📖 Scenario: You are designing a simple webpage section that contains a box with text inside. You want to understand how the box model works and how to control the space around and inside the box.

🎯 Goal: Build a basic box using HTML and CSS that demonstrates the box model properties: content, padding, border, and margin. You will create the box, add spacing inside and outside it, and see how these properties affect the layout.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a box element with a fixed width and height

Add padding inside the box to create space between the content and the border

Add a visible border around the box

Add margin outside the box to separate it from other elements

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Understanding the box model is essential for designing and laying out web pages with proper spacing and alignment.

💼 Career

Web designers and front-end developers use the box model daily to create visually appealing and user-friendly websites.

Progress0 / 4 steps

Create the box element

Create a <div> element with the class box inside the <body> tag.

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    Box Model Example

Need a hint?

Use a <div> tag and add class="box" inside the <body>.

Add basic box styles

Inside the <style> tag, create a CSS rule for the class .box that sets width to 200px, height to 100px, and background-color to #add8e6 (light blue).

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    Box Model Example
    
        /* Add styles for .box here */
    


    This is a box

Need a hint?

Use the CSS properties width, height, and background-color inside the .box selector.

Add padding and border

In the .box CSS rule, add padding of 20px and a border of 3px solid black.

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    Box Model Example
    
        .box {
            width: 200px;
            height: 100px;
            background-color: #add8e6;
            /* Add padding and border here */
        }
    


    This is a box

Need a hint?

Use padding: 20px; and border: 3px solid black; inside the .box CSS rule.

Add margin outside the box

In the .box CSS rule, add margin of 30px to create space outside the box.

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    Box Model Example
    
        .box {
            width: 200px;
            height: 100px;
            background-color: #add8e6;
            padding: 20px;
            border: 3px solid black;
            /* Add margin here */
        }
    


    This is a box

Need a hint?

Add margin: 30px; inside the .box CSS rule to create space outside the box.