CSS card — cheatsheet
One screen of recall. The card project, distilled to what you reach for.
The exact property/value pairs that give the card its depth and spacing.
Prerequisites
None — this is a recall surface.
- padding: 24px
- Space inside the border, between content and edge.
- border-radius: 16px
- Rounds all four corners by 16px.
- box-shadow: 0 12px 40px rgb(0 0 0 / .45)
- Soft elevation: no x, 12px down, 40px blur.
- box-sizing: border-box
- width includes padding + border — set it globally.
- max-width: 320px
- Caps the card so it never spans the full row.
Reference
Full CSS cheatsheet book
Layout primitives, modern colour, container queries — the printable subject sheet.
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