[SPAM] Re: paragraph spacing in different browsers

by fatgraffix <info(at)fatgraffix.com>

Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:00:46 -0800
To:	hwg(at)j-a-b.net, "hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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wow - thank you very much. your emails have really helped me alot 
today. solved a big problem on a website i'm working on...

-fatgraffix

>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
>--
>Jens Brueckmann
>http://www.j-a-b.net/

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