Boxing with CSS, Part II: No Margin For Error
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In tutorial 9, I gave an introduction to the CSS Visual Formatting Model. I explained how elements create boxes and how these should be rendered by browsers supporting CSS. That's all good and well, of course, until we actually get to talking about how the browsers that claim to support CSS actually do things. This is my job this week.
We'll start off gently by looking at the properties that control box borders in CSS, and see which of these are supported by the browsers. We'll then go on to explain the basics of how Internet Explorer handles the parts of the formatting model we've discussed so far. Then we take a deep dive into Netscape waters as we see that Netscape doesn't really support the formatting model at all, but merely interprets the properties in its own way.
Off we go then, with a discussion of border properties
