- From: <JOrendorff@ixl.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:19:51 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
Matthew Brealey wrote:
> > Empty elements are 'ignored' by CSS, at least
> > with all current implementation's (except Netscape 4, which is so
> > completely broken that it will give different margins depending on
> > whether or not you include end tags on elements such as P) UA style
> > sheets.
Branden N. McDaniel replied:
> You are making assumptions, though, about the UA default
> style sheet here.
> There is nothing in the specs to prevent a UA default style sheet from
> including a rule
>
> p { border: 1px black solid }
More likely, a UA stylesheet might include:
p {
padding: 0.3em 0;
margin: 0.4em 0;
}
just so that if a user *does* later assign a border or background to
it, there will be an attractive amount of space around the content.
--
Jason Orendorff
Received on Monday, 10 April 2000 18:20:43 UTC