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Dimensions of elements

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Page title</title>
    <style>
      p.first {
        width: 150px;
        height: 100px;
        background-color: #B2FFCC;
        padding: 0px;  /*zero internal indents*/
      }
      p.second {
        width: 150px;
        height: 100px;
        background-color: #C2FFFF;
        border: 5px ridge #0066FF;
        padding: 10px;
        margin: 5px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
 
  <body>
    <p class="first">For this paragraph, we specify only the width and height.</p>
    <p class="second">This paragraph contains, in addition to width and height,
    inner indent, border and outer indent.</p>
  </body>
</html>

Result:

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