Making Sense of the CSS Box Model

Review the core concepts of the CSS box model, including techniques such as styling text and images, floating content, using display properties, and positioning elements.

Introduction

• Making sense of the CSS Box Model

1. Appetizer: The Web Is Made of Boxes

• Displaying information through the web
• The web is made of boxes
• Designing with boxes

2. Entrée: The Origin of the Box in Typography

• Understanding the basics of type
• Change the type, change the box
• Text flow in the box

3. Main Course: Understanding the Box Model

• What is the CSS Box Model?
• Changing the contents within the box
• Understanding the display porperty
• Sidebar: Images are inline elements
• Position is everything
• Floating and clearing content
• Using the clearfix
• Pseudo elements: Making the browser hallucinate

4. Dessert: The Brave New World of Layouts

• Modern layout modules
• Flex: Content-based layouts
• Flex in depth
• Grid: Layout-based layouts
• Grid in depth

5. Nightcap

• Shapes
• Going further with CSS and web standards