- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:36:43 -0800
- To: Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>, Style <www-style@w3.org>
Thus spake Stephanos Piperoglou: > I assume (I haven't checked) that the BODY has a default margin, but has > padding set to 0. So this behaviour is consistent. My most recent revision to the "Base Stylesheet"[1] has the body margin set to 0 and the padding set at 8 pixels. Previously I had the margin at 8 pixels, 0 padding, and the background-position set to -8px. It's certainly cleaner now, though I understand that it's no longer in line with the spec. Oy. > And don't forget that > padding goes OUTSIDE a border, so this also makes sense. If you create an > element with padding, border, margin and background image, you expect the > image to be contained within the border. (if you don't, enclose it in a > parent element with appropriate background and make it transparent).. So I > think there's no mistake in the spec. I never said it was a mistake, but in light of the consistent misimplementation and the (arguable) virtue of said misimplementations, perhaps it would be best to adjust course in CSS2? [1] http://www.verso.com/agitprop/corestyle/base.html __________________ Todd Fahrner mailto:fahrner@pobox.com http://www.verso.com/agitprop/
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