Sent by Zoe M. Gillenwater on 4 August 2006 20:08
Cecily Anderson wrote:
> I'm working on http://www.uspirg.org/redesign/enviro/template.html,
> trying to manipulate the look of the bottom border in some div
> styles. The problem is that I want the text in the divs to have
> padding, but the bottom border doesn't respond to the padding. If I
> do an <hr> instead of a bottom border, I can't get it to be just 1px
> high and one pure color-- it seems to add black/shading automatically
> when I set an hr style with color and height. Is there a way to
> control the look of the hr better? Or should I use something other
> than padding to offset the content in the div? Thanks!
>
>
Cecily,
You should be able to use padding to space text away from a border. No
need to use an hr. Can you tell us where on your page the problem is? I
don't know where out of all that text on the page you want to create
spacing.
Zoe
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Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Services Manager
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu
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