Re: [css-d] can't get margin-bottom on to take effect

2011-11-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On 11/10/11 10:58 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 11/10/2011 8:35 PM, Angela French wrote: p a.downloadhelp { margin-bottom:20px!important; } By the specs, and by browser practice, vertical margin properties "do not apply" (i.e., are syntactically allowed but have no effect) to "non-replaced in

Re: [css-d] can't get margin-bottom on to take effect

2011-11-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
11/10/2011 8:35 PM, Angela French wrote: p a.downloadhelp { margin-bottom:20px!important; } By the specs, and by browser practice, vertical margin properties "do not apply" (i.e., are syntactically allowed but have no effect) to "non-replaced inline elements" (i.e., anything text-level, su

Re: [css-d] can't get margin-bottom on to take effect

2011-11-10 Thread G.Sørtun
On 10.11.2011 19:35, Angela French wrote: ...there must be something I'm not understanding about margin-bottom on block elements. Study: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#collapsing-margins ...and add one of the property values that will prevent the effect of "collapsing margins". regards

[css-d] can't get margin-bottom on to take effect

2011-11-10 Thread Angela French
I must be doing something wrong, but I sure can't see what! Here is an example page: http://sbctc.edu/college/f_accounting.aspx . I'm trying to put a bit of margin-bottom on the "Get help downloading files" . If I try some other style, say a border-bottom, it takes, so there must be somethin