• A model for how user agents take the document tree, and process and display it for visual media. This includes continuous media such as a computer screen, and paged media such as a book or document printed by browser print functions. In the visual formatting model, each element in the document tree generates zero or more boxes according to the box model. The layout of these boxes is governed by box dimensions and type, positioning scheme (normal flow, float, and absolute positioning), relationships between elements in the document tree, and external information (e.g., viewport size, intrinsic dimensions of images, etc.). ← MDN Web Docs

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