CSS Basic question

HTML-CSS
1

Tell us what’s happening:
Why is the yellow box bigger than the blue and the red box

Your code so far


<style>
.injected-text {
  margin-bottom: -25px;
  text-align: center;
}

.box {
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: black;
  border-width: 5px;
  text-align: center;
}

.yellow-box {
  background-color: yellow;
  padding: 10px;
}

.red-box {
  background-color: crimson;
  color: #fff;
  padding: 20px;
}

.blue-box {
  background-color: blue;
  color: #fff;
  padding: 10px;
}
</style>
<h5 class="injected-text">margin</h5>

<div class="box yellow-box">
<h5 class="box red-box">padding</h5>
<h5 class="box blue-box">padding</h5>
</div>

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Adjust the Padding of an Element

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2

because the yellow box is a div element and is also the parent container of the other two elements. that is why the red and blue boxes are contained inside the yellow box.

3

the yellow box is a div (also the parent container in this case), the other two boxes are child elements of this container that’s why the other two boxes are stored in the yellow box.