Understand CSS display types, visibility, and overflow control. Learn block, inline, inline-block, none, hidden, and scroll behaviors easily.
CSS Display, Visibility & Overflow Explained Clearly
In this lesson, you’ll understand how elements appear, disappear, align, and behave
on the page.
Most layout confusion comes from misunderstanding
display, visibility, and overflow .
Once you master these, debugging layouts becomes fast and logical.
Info!
Before Flexbox or Grid, every layout starts with display rules.
1. CSS Display Property
The display property defines how an element behaves in the layout flow .
It controls width behavior, line breaks, and box characteristics.
1.1 display: block
Block elements:
Start on a new line Take full available width Accept width, height, margin, padding
Common block elements: div , p , section , h1-h6 ✏️ Edit ▶ Run <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.box {
display: block;
background: #dbeafe;
padding: 10px;
margin: 6px 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">Block 1</div>
<div class="box">Block 2</div>
</body>
</html>
1.2 display: inl…
