> > Zounds! I believe that I understand that entire paragraph! but why, > then, after I add a margin-top: 8px to my code, does that paragraph > go wider? By "wider," I mean that it widens to the width of the > parent div which contains all that stuff...the small head, the big > head and date the dotted line and the blurb paragraph, now enclosed > by my > > <p class="dotted">
The top margin should not create a issue like that. Did you check that you did not make a typo? Did you validate your code? Sometimes that helps. Or post a URL, that helps too ;) -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/