On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote: >>> 1. what is the CSS equivalent of (the deprecated) vspace and >>> hspace, padding or margin (HTML describes it as 'white space' >>> around the element (this is especially important in view of the >>> fact that they are deprecated and are 'generally non-zero') >> Margin. Padding would let the background of the element show >> through. > I'm not sure. I don't think it was considered in such detail by the > HTML working group. I think the term 'white space' is simply one > used as a convenience. I don't think one can be so certain about > this; the reason I put the 'white space' quote in was in case anyone > said it was definitely padding (HTML also refers to it as 'gutter'. The vspace and hspace goes on the outside of the border, if the image has a border. Hence it is a margin, not padding, which would go on the inside of the border. -- Ian Hickson ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epy8ieh/ `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' fL Member, Mozilla Quality Assurance _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' Browser Standards Compliance Team (il).-'' (li).' ((!.-'Received on Friday, 21 January 2000 21:15:05 GMT
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