- From: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@imc.exec.nhs.uk>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:31:16 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
I'm slightly confused about where I should be setting properties which are global to an entire HTML file, and precisely which ones are inherited by other elements. For instance, if I wanted to have a global 6em left margin, what would the effects be of setting this in either HTML or BODY? As I read the spec, setting it on BODY would make every subsequent element inherit the margin, thus paragraphs would have a margin of 12em (6 for the inherited margin, 6 for the body's margin) - effectively the stylesheet becoming (after inheritence): BODY { margin-left: 6em; } P { margin-left: 6em; } It isn't clear from the spec what I should expect when setting the margin on the HTML tag. Thanks for any help, Chris
Received on Monday, 22 July 1996 07:30:35 UTC