- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:11:27 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
Francisco Brandão wrote: > > i would like to know what´s the real big difference (if there is anyone) > between the use of margin and padding properties to adjust and control the > distance between the contents of a page and the surroundings > top|bottom|left|right margins of the browser area. > i've tested with both properties on IE5, NS4 and NS6 and it seems to work > all in the same way .... Try adding a border and then look. :) The padding comes between the border and the content; margins go outside the border. > is there any preference for one of them on the Body tag in CSS ?? I think padding makes more sense, but I don't know what's preferred.
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