Basics of CSS2 – Part 5 Introduction This is part 5 of my series, Basics of CSS2. In this part of the series I talk about the padding, border and margin of an element. In the previous part I talked about the CSS Box, where these surrounding features where introduced. You should read that part before reading this one. Look at the BODY element of a typical web page critically; you would realize that it has margin areas. It might also have borders, if the web site designer gave it borders (however,... Sign in to see full entry.