switch your <body> tag to:

<body style="color: #fff; background: #000; margin-top: 30px;">

and it should be fine.

DAVID COSCIO wrote:
> I'm very new to CSS. I understand the concept at least. The best way for me 
> to learn things is in real world situations and here I am in a real world 
> situation! I need to have a table sit 30px down from the top of a page. 
> Simple as that. I tried setting the margin and that didn't work as far as all 
> browsers were concerned especially after I added a doctype. At any rate I 
> went out looking for some CSS examples at the suggestion of someone and found 
> a few different ones. I tried this one: BODY { margin-top: 30 }. it seemed to 
> work until I tried it live. Nothing. I tried a few others that did nothing at 
> all. I tried them as embedded and external. It's a simple, no frills page 
> with a simple 2-cell table.
> URL:
> http://www.automatwebdesign.com/gasblowing<http://www.automatwebdesign.com/gasblowing>
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