Tony Benham wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm having problems with a css layout where a margin is being inserted with
> the wrong width. I believe it's my css that's at fault since it is wrong in
> netscape 7.1, opera,7.11 and IE6 but I cannot see what is wrong.
> The page with the problem is
www.woodleyzebrasfc.com and the incorrect item
> is shown under the left hand navigation menu under links. The link to ysr
> has a margin applied which is causing the space between it and the next item
> fifa rules. YSR is in a linkpic div, which has a margin of 0, but it appears
> to have a margin applied which looks like 1em, the margin applied by
> div#sidebar div, which is two levels up. I thought the margin applied
> nearest the div has priority. The css file is at
>
http://www.woodleyzebrasfc.com/getcss.html
>
> Can give me some clues as to what I'm doing wrong here ?
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I don't have the time to play around with it to check but
my guess would be that you are wrong in assuming the
nearest margin has precedence...my experience is that
margins are cumulative...the margin applies to the
element no matter what margins are applied to
neighbouring elements
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eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"Hey Lord don't ask me questions
There ain't no answer in me"
