mem wrote:
> Let's suppose that by looking to those wireframes, I can say that all my h2
> will have a padding-bottom of 10px.
> However, if later on, I create a rule telling that the ul will have a margin
> top of 5px... (because almost all may have that attribute) if I place the h2
> on top of this ul, instead of the desired 10px, we will end up with 15px...
> and there, I ask: where/how should I subtract those extra 5 ?
>
> This is only an example, this is some sort of conflict that happen A LOT
> while I'm creating the css.
Understood about this being only an example, but does
this one case, at least, not get made much simpler
by the concept of collapsing margins ?
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#collapsing-margins
Philip Taylor
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