Posted by Els on 07/29/06 13:31

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

> Chris wrote:
>
>> It's probably not what you meant but I added an emtpy paragraph at the
>> bottom with its margin set to 0 and its working. It didn't seem to
>> work on the margin.
>
> Not a good idea. Some browsers may completely collapse an empty element,
> thus giving you no benefit. Add the padding to the last real paragraph
> as already stated.
>
> #maincenter p {padding: 2em; }

Wasn't stated by me though ;-)
My suggestion was #maincenter {padding-bottom:1px;}

The padding on the paragraph will not stop the margin of it collapsing
with the 0 margin of the div around it, which is causing the space.

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