[CSS3] CSS Display Property: Block, Inline-Block, and Inline

Understanding the most common CSS display types of block, inline-block, and inline will allow you to get the most out of your HTML and use CSS Frameworks like Bootstrap to their fullest.

Takeway:

Inline: Can NOT add height and width. But can add margin and padding
Inline-block: Can add height, width, margin and padding. Not take the whole row.
Block: Can add height, width, margin and padding, take the whole row.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
  <title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here is some text in a paragraph tag, a paragraph tag has a dispay property of block by defualt. <span class="inline">A span is inline by defualt</span> but with some styling we can make it <span class="inline-block">inline-block</span>.  Inline block will respect top and bottom margins and padding. We can also make it <span class="block">block</span> by adding classes and styling them.</p>

</body>
</html>

.box {
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 5px;
  display: block;
}
p {
  border: 1px solid black;
}
.inline {
  border: 1px solid blue;
  display: inline;
  margin-left: 10px;
  margin-right: 50px;
  padding-left: 10px;
  padding-right: 50px;
  margin-top: 50px;
  width: 500px; // Doesn't work
  height: 200px; // Doesn't work
}
.inline-block {
  border: 1px solid red;
  display: inline-block;
  margin-right: 20px;
  width: 200px;
  height: 50px;
}
.block {
  display: block;
  border: 1px solid green;
  width: 50px;
  height: 100px;
}