What is the difference between display: inline and display: inline-block?

Question

What exactly is the difference between the inline and inline-block values of CSS display?

Answer 1

One thing not mentioned in answers is inline element can break among lines while inline-block can't (and obviously block)! So inline elements can be useful to style sentences of text and blocks inside them, but as they can't be padded you can use line-height instead.

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