I want box width and height to include all of the content, padding, border width, and margin by default. Is there a way to do this? Especially, I want to be able to specify
Maybe wrap another div around it and specified that div's width?
<div style="width: 100px; border: 1px solid blue;">
<div style="width: 100px; background:yellow; margin: 10px; border: 1px solid blue">
inner width 100px not including it's margin.
</div>
</div>
<div style="width: 100px; border: 1px solid blue">
<div style="background:yellow; margin: 10px; border: 1px solid blue">
inner width's 100px including it's margin.
</div>
</div>
if your margin is for example 10px you can use
width: calc(100% - 20px);
box-sizing: border-box;
browser support
w3schools.com reference
This is a vague question, but I'll answer the best I can.
Margin, by definition, is the area around the outside of your box; meaning there's no way to include margins inside of your div.
If you would like more padding on the inside of your box, but you don't want the box to resize, then use: box-sizing:content-box;
Or if you would like to include padding and the border, use: box-sizing:border-box;
A workable solution that preserves the size of your divs and removes overflow would look something like this:
#parent{
box-sizing:border-box;
width:100%;
height:200px;
padding:2em;
}
#child{
box-sizing:border-box;
width:100%;
height:100%;
padding:1em;
}
<div id="parent">
<div id="child"></div>
</div>
Just place the div you want to give margins to inside of another div that has padding. Thus creating faux margins.
Use display: flex;
for the parent tag.
For example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.center {
border: 1px solid black;
width: 100%;
overflow: auto;
box-sizing: border-box;
display: flex; /* it can put children in one line */
}
.left {
border: 1px solid black;
width: 20%;
float: left;
box-sizing: border-box
}
.right {
border: 1px solid black;
width: 80%;
margin: 0 10px;
float: left;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="center">
<div class="left">left</div>
<div class="right">right</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Set the CSS box-sizing
property to border-box
to make width
and height
include the content, border, and padding. This allows you to set width: 100%
and still add padding
or border
. In other words box-sizing: border-box
makes width
include everything between the inner edges of the margin. There is no way to include the margin itself in such a way.
.example { box-sizing: border-box; width: 100%; padding: 10px }