margin elements (was Re: [www-html] <none>)

> 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

Received on Wednesday, 13 December 2000 09:06:04 UTC