- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 06:01:58 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Matthew Brealey wrote:
>> Vertical margins have absolutely no effect on inline elements.
> That's as may be, as things stand, but it is nonsensical to adopt
> such an approach because:
> 1. it reduces flexibility
> 2. vertical borders clearly _must_ be and are allowed on inline
> elements, and since they only differ (aside from other, irrelevant
> differences) in that one is coloured and the other is not, if you
> allow borders, you must allow margins.
Vertical margins are, indeed, allowed. But because they are
transparent and because the padding/border/margin properties do not
affect the _layout_ (only the painting) of the document, the net
result is that vertical margins on inline elements have no visible
effect. They may be present, but are invisible.
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