> 
> 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

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