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 -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
