Re: paragraph spacing in different browsers

by Jens Brueckmann <lists(at)j-a-b.net>

Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:21:05 +0100
To:	fatgraffix <info(at)fatgraffix.com>, "hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:51:23 -0800, fatgraffix <info(at)fatgraffix.com> wrote:

> got it - but what's ' margin: auto; ' do?

if you do not let the paragraph stretch over the full width of the 
viewport [1]  but let it have a width of say, 60%, the margin value "auto" 
makes the user agent calculate the available margin on all sides of the 
element and attributes equal values to opposite sides automatically. 
Thence the name of this value.

In other words: This value centres your paragraph when it has less than 
100% width.

Cheers,


jens

[1]  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q2
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