{"id":3716,"date":"2024-09-02T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2024-09-02T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T18:28:42","slug":"backgrounds-for-the-box-model-and-why-it-can-be-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/backgrounds-for-the-box-model-and-why-it-can-be-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Backgrounds for the Box Model (and why it can be useful)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had someone write to me the other day that they were trying to visualize the different parts of the box model. They said they would just code up an example themselves, but there is no way to, say, set a background color for just<\/em> the “padding” area of an element. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What they were talking about is something like this, the box model diagram available in DevTools:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Box Model in Chrome DevTools<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I said, I think you… can! actually! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trick lays in using the background-clip<\/code> property in CSS, which allows you to stop the background-image<\/code> property at different points in the box model. Here’s a really basic example of doing that, using the same colors as the model above:<\/p>\n\n\n\n