Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 06/26/07 18:17

Brian Robertson wrote:
> I am doing something wrong on a style sheet. I want some space before
> the text in the cells of a table, so I used this:
>
> td {
> height:19px;
> background-color: rgb(248,239,182);
> margin-left: 3;
> }
>
> When viewed in my editor the spaces are there as desired, but once
> viewed with a browser they are gone.
>

Margin is outside the element padding is inside the element, therefore
if your want to add space to the text *inside* the TD then the property
for the TD should be padding. Also your must use *units* for almost all
length properties "margin-left: 3;" is invalid, best to use units
proportional with respect to the font

td { height: 1.5em; padding-left: .25em; }

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Take care,

Jonathan
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