Moxy, Thank you for responding.
> I was advised to use padding early in my CSS learning. The > recommendation was to create a "boundary div" specifying margin:0 and > padding:0 as shown in #leftMenu and then define internal margins, > padding in a "padding div" as shown in #leftMenuPad below. That approach > has served me well. I am trying to understand the principle behind what you are suggesting so that I might apply it to my situation. However, I don't quite grasp it. It seems that you are just putting in an extra div with padding inside another div without padding. How exactly does this make a difference? -- Dave M G Articlass - open source CMS http://articlass.org ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/