Understanding how to navigate through HTML and CSS properties is the best way to shake up your website design skills. Whether you are a new developer or an experienced one brushing up on your skills, it is important to stay in line with some of the fundamental rules and structures of web development. Building even the most basic website can get very tricky without a good grasp of HTML and CSS.

This is why it is important to understand the display property values. All display Elements in the browser have a default behavior. In this article, we will discuss the different ways elements will display in your browser. We will focus on the difference between block-level and inline-level elements. Let’s dive in.  

HTML & CSS Block-Level and Inline-Level Elements    

The display property defines how your HTML element takes place in the view. It is important to know to manage the layout of your webpage.

Every element in HTML is treated as a box. The display property determines how these boxes will be shown on your screen. There are many display property elements. The most notable ones are block, inline, inline-block, table, flex, grid, and none.

Let’s discuss the block element display property.

What are block-level elements?

A block-level element is an HTML element that takes up horizontal space by default. It stretches 100% wide and takes on the height of its inner content. By default, the block-level element always starts a new line and stacks vertically. With the help of CSS, its width and height can be adjusted. Take a look at the example below.

HTML:

 
 This is a block. 

 This is a block. 

CSS:

 
body {
padding: 30px;
}
div {
padding: 15px;
background: rgba(255,122,89);
margin: 10px;
color: white;
}

In this example, the sentence is inside of a

 

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