- From: JB Piggin <jbpiggin@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:55:04 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Robert J. O'Hara" <rjohara@post.harvard.edu>, www-style@w3.org
Hi Bob.
It makes a difference if you have a coloured
background or a border on the text. Using margin, the
hanging indent would bleed off the edge to the left.
It's visible in the example here:
http://www.piggin.net/poetry3.htm
Jean-Baptiste
--- "Robert J. O'Hara" <rjohara@post.harvard.edu>
wrote:
> I've always written:
>
> p {margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;}
>
> Is there a reason you specify padding rather than
> margin, or are both
> just as effective? If one is preferable I'd
> recommend explaining that
> in the specs, and if both are OK I'd recommend
> noting that also.
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Received on Thursday, 6 June 2002 09:55:05 UTC