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> > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- 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/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/