On Thu Nov 20 2014 at 9:54:00 PM Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu Nov 20 2014 at 9:47:11 PM Crest Christopher <
> crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why is it adding 4px for left and right ? I'm reading up on box-sizing,
>> I don't see the benefit ?
>>
>>
>>
> Without setting box-xizing to border-box, the box model is additive
> (except in older IE, ironically) which is kinda wrong/bad. 300px box plus
> 10px padding and 2px border becomes 324px wide.
>
> Setting box-sizing: border-box does not become additive. Padding and
> border are subtracted from the 300px.
>

Or rather, padding and border do not add on to the 300px. 'Subtracted' may
be wrong term here.
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