Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 07/29/06 13:38

Els wrote:

> 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;}

Unfortunately, "#maincenter" has the following inline style:
<div id="maincenter" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;" class="test">
so adding your padding-bottom would be overridden. 'Tis why I added the
p to it. ;-)

> 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.

I thought we were trying to add some space ... the test page sure could
use a bit.

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