- From: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:17:13 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
Ignacio Javier writes:
> When you have something like:
>
> whatever {margin-left:2em;margin:2pt}
>
> ¿what margin applies to left, really?
Ah, that's an easy one: 2pt
Margin is a shorthand property, it sets four properties at once. The
above actually means:
whatever {margin-left:2em}
whatever {margin-top:2pt}
whatever {margin-right:2pt}
whatever {margin-bottom:2pt}
whatever {margin-left:2pt}
So the first 'margin-left' is lost because the last one takes
precedence.
Bert
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