Re: margins with CSS

by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>

Date:	Thu, 23 May 2002 22:17:32 +0100
To:	r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk, hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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At 16:50 23/05/02 +0100, Raj Bhaskar wrote:
<snip/>
>This works fine except that it backs on to the cells on either side of it 
>(which have nested tables in
>them) exactly and it doesn't look particularly good.  I tried to work 
>around this by setting the
>margin of the content cell, which (according to the W3C spec at 
>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-
>CSS2/box.html#box-margin-area) is supposed to be *outside* the border, but 
>this doesn't have
>any effect at all.  I guess that I must be misinterpreting the box model 
>somewhere, but I can't see
>where.

<jedi name="yoda" class="master">Tables with CSS confusing to use are. 
Table cells are not block level remember you must</jedi>

Table cells don't have margins, IIRC. Unfortunately its too late for me to 
dig out the relevant bit of the spec. Unfortunately I cant think of an easy 
fix for your problem.

Andrew

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