CSS, How to Style with Margins

Wednesday, 16. December 2009

When designing a CSS based website it is very useful to understand Margins. I have found that it is much easier to deal with browser compatibility when  one uses proper margin styles. Trying to set a top: -10px seems to cause browser issues that can be easily avoided by using margin-top:-10px.

Margins can be applied to the outside of any block level or inline element. They create space between the edge of an element and the edge of any adjacent elements.

Margins can be applied to the individual sides of an element.

p { margin-top: 0px}
p { margin-right: 5px}

h1 { margin-bottom: 3px}
h1 { margin-left: 4px}

Margins can also be used with a single short tag. If one value is set this value will be applied to all sides of the element.

p { margin: 5px}

If two values are set, the first value will be applied to the top and bottom of the element while the second value will be applied to the left and right margins.

p { margin: 10px 5px}

If three values are set the fist value is applied to the top, the second value is applied to the left and right and finally the third value is applied to the bottom.

p { margin: 10px 5px 7px}

If for values are set the first value is applied to the top, the second value is applied to the right, the third value is applied to the bottom and the forth is applied to the left.
Top, Right, Bottom, Left

p { margin:10px 5px 7px 3px}

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CSS, How to deal with margins?

Wednesday, 19. August 2009

Margins can be applied to the outside of any block level or inline element. They create space between the edge of an element and the edge of any adjacent elements.

Margins  can be applied to individual sides of a box:

p { margin-top: 0;}
p { margin-right: -5px;}
p { margin-bottom: 10px;}
p { margin-left: 5px;}

Margins can also be applied using a single shorthand property. If one margin value is specified, it is applied to all sides of an element:

p { margin: 5px;}

If two values are specified, the top and bottom margins are set to the first value and the right and left margins are set to the second.

p { margin: 5px 10px;}

If three values are specified, the top is set to the first value, the left and right ar set to the second, and the botton is set to the third.

p { margin: 5px 10px 3px;}

If four values are specified, they apply to the top, right, bottom, and left.

p { margin: 5px 6px 7px 8px;}

It should be noted that you can use negative values for the margin. This can cause the element to overlap another element.

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