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Discussion on: The CSS Box Model

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Nicholas Stimpson • Edited

You do. It's a good article. But the terminology is confusing - at least it confused me for a long time - until one day someone pointed out that the spec says that containing blocks are not boxes, even though the CSS 2.x spec says that "block" is an abbreviation for "block box", and I had to revise my mental model of what a box was. Of course, this confusing naming is not limited to the content, padding, border and margin "box"es. Line boxes and Page boxes are also not boxes in the CSS sense.

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Alvaro Montoro

I reviewed the post and updated a little bit the wording, still kept some of the "boxes", but tried to emphasize on the "areas."