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CSS CSS Basics (2014) The Box Model Display Values

rajbee
rajbee
6,657 Points
Posted by rajbee
rajbee
6,657 Points

How do you achieve the effect of inline block without using inline block ?

How do I do it ? Please show me some code.

2 Answers

Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
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Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

First of all, why are you trying to achieve inline-block without using inline-block?

My questions aside, you can achieve limited fake version by adjusting padding and margin of inline element explicitly. But this is just not worth your time. It doesn't even suit for learning purpose.

Alternatively you write your own CSS-like language using other programming languages which is beyond my scope.

Julian Aramburu
Julian Aramburu
11,368 Points
Julian Aramburu
Julian Aramburu
11,368 Points

Hi Raj! As far as I know you must use inline-block just because inline elements can't use margin properties. That's why sometimes you use inline-block, because you need the inline effect but also needs to adjust margin.