SIZING ELEMENTS - Percentages: Padding & Margin

In this lesson (https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-intermediate-css/lessons/sizing-elements/exercises/percentages-height-width), it was stated that

**Note: Because the box model includes padding, borders, and margins, setting an element’s width to 100% may cause content to overflow its parent container. While tempting, 100% should only be used when content will not have padding, border, or margin. **

What if we set the width to 100% and there’s a padding, border and margin, and we set box-sizing: border-box, will the child element still oveflow the parent container?

Hey @byte6953803474

Only if you add margin, as the the name of the box-sizing value implies, border-box includes padding and border within the value you specified in your width, but as you can see below, margin is outside of the border-box.

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So it will still overflow because margin is outside of the border-box?

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Yes, it’s exactly that :slight_smile: .

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Thank you so much for the explanation, God bless you

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