Could this be margin collapsing? http://www.techdego.com/upload/2007/05/margincollapse4.png First image is in quirks mode, second is in standards mode with borders collapsing.
Kevin On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:03 AM, hoodwill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! I'm having trouble with overlapping paragraphs. I should state > in advance that I don't care too much about vertical rhythm (heresy, I > know) and I have made various changes to get rid the paragraph indent > and have more space between paragraphs. That said, I have backed > these changes out (except for a body font-size increased to 115%) and > I'm still having a fundamental problem. > > Basically, the margin seems to work quite differently between two > successive paragraphs than it does between paragraphs and other > elements, e.g. UL's. If I don't set my paragraph margin-bottom quite > high (e.g. 1.5 to 2ems) the second paragraph will actually overlap the > first! But if I do set the margins that high, there is this huge gap > between a paragraph and a UL (for example). Yes I can individually > set negative margins on problem areas, but I'm hoping there is a > better way. > > I have not worked much with style sheets where the line-height is > globally increased... I feel like that is part of the issue. Any > thoughts? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Blueprint CSS" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<blueprintcss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en.
