I have no issue with any of that below. It's factually correct. What has happened is that some folks have read their own meaning into what I said, which is that (apart from <HTML> the <BODY> is the prime and only global element at the start of a document. If you simply add text to it, the text will obey any settings that have been defined for 'body', including margins and padding. When any other element is *added* within 'body' the situation *changes*. The text within 'body' will still obey 'body' rules and anything else will set its own rules and take over from 'body' and may or may not inherit attributes from 'body' and may or may not set its own attributes. That's a fundamental fact and is the 'change' from 'body' attributes that I originally spoke of. I have never mentioned 'inheritance' up until this message, so I don't know where that came from.
Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch & A-P groups Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiquitus ----- Original Message ----- From: Alyda Gilmore To: Alan K Baker ; css-d Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 6:21 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] IE position problem The following is quoted from http://meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/199903.html "Not all properties are inherited, however. As an example, most of the box properties (margins, padding, and borders) are not inherited." To demonstrate this, I've uploaded two files to my server: http://www.aroundtheblock.net/tutorials/css/index.php http://www.aroundtheblock.net/tutorials/css/indexNoPM.php The first page (index.php) has the following in it's stylesheet: ul, ol, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, pre, form, body, html, p, div, blockquote, input, textarea, fieldset { margin: 0; padding: 0; } For the second page (indexNoPM.php) I changed the above selector to include only the body: body { margin: 0; padding: 0; } There's an obvious difference in the margin and/or padding of the p, h1, h2, and ul elements on each page. --- Alyda ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
