CSS box around box technique
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Dear Experts,
I was trying to make an CSS division box with content in it as well as a border around it.
Instead of using the box-border technique, I was trying out a new box to box technique instead.
<html>
<head>
  <style type="text/css">
    #outer{
    height: 20px; 
    width: 20px; 
background-color:#233D78; 
     }
     #inner{
height:18px; 
width: 18px; 
     background-color: #FFF; 
     font-size: 1em; 
     text-align:center;
     font-family:'Bookman Old Style', serif;
     padding: 0px; 
     margin-top: 1px; 
     margin-right:auto; 
     margin-left:auto;
     margin-bottom:1px; 
     vertical-align:middle;
      }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer"><div id="inner">TEXT</div></div>
</body>
</html>
Somehow the borders are just not showing up right with FireFox.
I tried everything. Setting up the Paddings of both boxes, margin, and messing around with the width.
TO be honest, it took me around 30min to do this and I still can't get it right :(
I know that a way to achieve the same result would be setting up a border around just one box. But I just wanna learn this box around box background-color technique.
THanks in advance
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