Why does adding 8px to my margin top make that paragraph go as wide as the container? why wouldn't it make the text respect the existing space all the way around?

Here's the class in question:

.dotted {
        border-top: 1px dotted #000;
        padding: 8px 0 0 0;
margin: 8px 0 0 0; << this margin value makes the paragraph go too wide!
}

and the page itself may be seen here:

http://thinkplan.org/workshop/pix/working.html

many thanks!

John
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