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- mohit - Apr 03 2007 | margins, css, development, html
An explanation of why margins are collapsed in css...
Quoted: Why is this? Because it's what authors would tend to expect. If you declare top and bottom margins of 1em for paragraphs, odds are that you want one em of space between successive paragraphs. If you're feeling dubious about that assertion, consider this:
- derek - Jan 30 2006 | css, margin collapsing
Good article on margin collapsing in CSS.
Quoted: Like many basic concepts, margin collapsing can lead to unexpected and sometimes counterintuitive results.
- derek2 - Jan 30 2006 | imported_from_blue_dot, css, margin_collapsing, imported:del.icio.us
Good article on margin collapsing in CSS.Quoted: Like many basic concepts, margin collapsing can lead to unexpected and sometimes counterintuitive results.
- aaronpowell - May 06 2006 | css
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This annoyed me when I first got burned by it, but now I appreciate and think it's right. It's easy to work around it when you know it exists, but would be rather annoying to make it work if you needed it and it didn't exist. It's not so bad with pseudo classes, but IE makes that not work very often.
seems like it only happens on vertical (and not horizontal) margins.
Yeah, it's designed for block elements.