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Question about padding and margins

Sent by Erik Peterson on 4 May 2005 17:05


Linda H wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are times when you can get a desired result using either padding 
> or margins. Is there any reason why one or the other is better?
> 
> Linda Hobbet


Hi Linda,

You might want to check out this really intuitive description of how the 
entire box model works:

http://www.redmelon.net/tstme/box_model/

and the wiki for this site has more information:

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=BoxModel


And know that if you're worried about users of IE 5/Windows that there 
is a well document problem with that browser:

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=BoxModelHack

Hope that helps,
Erik
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