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Internal and external indents

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Page title</title> <style> p { border: 3px dashed #ffffff; background-color: #0066FF; color: #ffffff; padding: 15px; /Internal indentation for all sides/ margin: 25px; /Outer indentation for all sides/ } </style> </head> <body> <p>The usual paragraph.</p> </body> </html>	Result:
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