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What Is a Block Element?

A block element is formatted as a rectangular block occupying the entire width of the parent content box. Examples of block elements are:

• <P> - A paragraph of text and/or inline elements.
• <PRE> - A paragraph of text with white spaces preserved.
• <LI> - A list item. Identical to <P; except that it has list-item marker on the left.
• <TABLE> - A table of cells. Each cell is identical to <P>
• <FORM> - An input form. Identical to <P> except that it has no margins.
• <DIV> - A container to group elements into a block element.
• <H1/H2/H3...> - A title line. Identical to <P> except that it has different margins and font size
• <HR> - A horizontal ruler.

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1. What Is the HTML Element Formatting Model?
2. What Are the Formatting Behaviors of HTML Elements?
3. What Is a Block Element?
4. What Is an Inline Element?
5. What Is a Floating Element?
6. Hot To Specify the Content Box Size of a Block Element?
7. Hot To Specify Padding Spaces of a Block Element?
8. Hot To Test Padding Spaces on All 4 Sides?
9. How To Specify Borders of a Block Element?
10. Hot To Test Borders with Different Widths, Styles, and Colors?
11. How To Specify Margin Spaces of a Block Element?
12. How To Test Margin Spaces on All 4 Sides?
13. How To Specify the Color of the Margin Area?
14. How To Specify the Color of the Padding Area?
15. What Are the Background Properties of a Block Element?
16. How To Set Background to Transparent or Non-transparent?
17. How To Add Images to Backgrounds?
18. What Is the Text Paragraph Formatting Model?
19. How In-Line Elements Are Mixed in Text Lines?
20. How In-line Elements Affect Line Box Heights?
21. Is FORM a Block Element?