[css-d] Why does adding a border affect margins in FF?

[August Shamino]

Is this a common problem, e.g,:

You have some divs absolutely positioned within a container div. And, the 
left-most div is positioned at left: 0 and top:0; no margins, no padding on 
either divs, yet there's padding between it and its container div, until  
you add a border to the container div, then suddenly the layout gets messed 
up. The border eliminates the padding that wasn't supposed to be there in 
the first place. I'm using Firefox 1.5. Why? Why does adding a border cause 
the unintended margins to disappear? And removing the border adds back the 
unintended margins?


If anyone knows,  thanks

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