Posted by Vince Morgan on 12/24/06 05:07

<grosberg.michael@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Please help me understand something about padding: As far as I know,
> padding is supposed to be on the "inside" of an element. Common logic
> would imply, therefore, that if you assign an element a certain height
> and width, and also give it a padding through CSS, then the element
> would retain its stated size and render the content in a smaller area
> (size minus the padding) inside the element.
>
> But I just found out that is not the case! In bth Firefox and Explorer
> padding is added to the stated size . Worse still, in firefox, padding
> in table cells is added to the left and right sides but not to the top
> and bottom!
>
> Is that how these things are supposed to behave?
>
It won't help you, and it won't help me, but I realy do have to agree with
you in respect to padding. I think it breaks the encapsulation that a <div>
is supposed to represent entirely, and adds unwanted and perhaps even
unwarranted complexity.
It is very rare that you will see me agree with MS on such things, but on
this I do. Perhaps there were very good reasons for the current
implementaion. I certainly hope so.
Vince Morgan

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