Why We Use Display Inline Block in CSS?

admin_img Posted By Bajarangi soft , Posted On 30-09-2020

Compared to display: inline, the major difference is that display: inline-block allows to set a width and height on the element.,Also with display: inline-block, the top and bottom margins/paddings are respected, but with display: inline they are not,compared to display: block, the major difference is that display: inline-block does not add a line-break after the element, so the element can sit next to other elements.

INLINE CSS

1.Using inline-block to Create Navigation Links

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <style>
        .nav {
            background-color: yellow;
            list-style-type: none;
            text-align: center;
            margin: 0;
            padding: 0;
        }

        .nav li {
            display: inline-block;
            font-size: 20px;
            padding: 20px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Horizontal Navigation Links</h1>
<p>By default, list items are displayed vertically. In this example we use display: inline-block to display them horizontally (side by side).</p>
<p>Note: If you resize the browser window, the links will automatically break when it becomes too crowded.</p>

<ul class="nav">
    <li><a href="#home">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#about">About Us</a></li>
    <li><a href="#clients">Our Clients</a></li>
    <li><a href="#contact">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>

</body>
</html>
2.Using inline-block to Create Html file example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <style>
        span.a {
            display: inline; /* the default for span */
            width: 100px;
            height: 100px;
            padding: 5px;
            border: 1px solid blue;
            background-color: yellow;
        }

        span.b {
            display: inline-block;
            width: 100px;
            height: 100px;
            padding: 5px;
            border: 1px solid blue;
            background-color: yellow;
        }

        span.c {
            display: block;
            width: 100px;
            height: 100px;
            padding: 5px;
            border: 1px solid blue;
            background-color: yellow;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>The display Property</h1>

<h2>display: inline</h2>
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<h2>display: inline-block</h2>
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<h2>display: block</h2>
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</body>
</html>

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