I appreciate the replies. However, I think I'm confused, and must be missing a
basic concept somewhere. I think a little white space looks good, so I use 5%
margins in a body tag. I'd think that would put whatever is in the body (which
is everything) inside a nice 5% margin. But
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/computerrules.html uses float to make two columns
buy in doing so I don't get white space at the bottom of the page; the actual
body margin turns out to be pretty high up on the page and so effectively
invisible. If I switch to absolute positioning to do two columns (
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/computerrules.html ) I still lose my white space
on the bottom (this is in Firefox, not IE), so that would seem to mean that
something other than float taking things out of normal flow is causing me to
lose my white space. What is it?