Margin width ?

#1

In the (old) HTML:
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="5" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0"
marginwidth="0">

Is there a need for anything in CSS for that last,
or do the others take care of it?

--
Wes Groleau

There ain't no right wing,
there ain't no left wing.
There's only you and me and we just disagree.
(apologies to Jim Krueger)

#2

Scripsit Wes Groleau:

Quote:

In the (old) HTML:
body leftmargin="0" topmargin="5" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0"
marginwidth="0"

None of those attributes was ever part of any published HTML specification
(or even draft). They are just browser-specific trickery.

Quote:

Is there a need for anything in CSS for that last,
or do the others take care of it?

They are browser-specific trickery, so none of them takes any care of anyone
else.

I think you need to read my dusty old "Marginal issues in web page design",
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/margins.html

But what you really want (whether that's reasonable or not is another
matter) is apparently

html, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
body { margin-top: 5px; }

instead of all those attributes.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

#3

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

Quote:

But what you really want (whether that's reasonable or not is another
matter) is apparently

html, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
body { margin-top: 5px; }

Thank you. That is what I suspected, and I was looking for
confirmation. My challenge is to fix it, not to malign the
original author.

Whether or not it's browser-specific trickery, lots of
people with lots of browsers seem to be happy with it.
However, I've never been fully accepting of the philosophy
of "If it works, don't fix it." Perhaps that's a flaw in
my character, but it's the way I am.

--
Wes Groleau
"Grant me the serenity to accept those I cannot change;
the courage to change the one I can;
and the wisdom to know it's me."
-- unknown

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