- From: Beth Skwarecki <skwareea@screech.cs.alfred.edu>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:05:55 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Just wondering about the marginwidth, marginheight, leftmargin and topmargin > elements of the body tag. They don't exist in XHTML 1.0 Transitional (and > may not exist in any W3 spec for all I know) but they seem to be the only > way to achieve this effect (in the real world) even on NN4 and so on. Does > anyone know why they are not valid in the Transitional DTD which states as > an aim that it wants to be a usable version of XHTML compatible with older > browsers? I believe Jeffrey Zeldman called them the "four horsemen of non-validation" :-) They're necessary to make pages look right in some of the older browsers - I believe N4 is one of them - but in HTML 4 you should be setting this stuff in a stylesheet. --beth
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