padding in CSS 1

andycape · May 16, 2004

I am using padding 0; in my style sheet for body but I have a picture in the top right corner that is going all the way to the top but is leaving a 2-3 mm gap on the left no matter what I do.

Is there a way to force the left padding to be 0 ?

(I even put a leftmargin=0 tag in the body tag which didnt fix it ?)

thanx.

Vragabond · May 16, 2004

Usually browsers render body with margins instead of padding. In Opera, <body> tag also has a padding set and in IE and Mozilla it is margin. To get rid of the gutter, it is best to change both to zero (to ensure cross browser compatibilty):

Code:

<style type="text/css">
 body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
 }
</style>

BillyRayPreachersSon · May 17, 2004

Although it doesn't matter too much when using "0", you should really specify the units for measurement, too:

Code:

<style type="text/css">
body {
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
}
</style>

Dan

andycape · May 17, 2004

I do have that in my external css sheet, maybe I'll try using it in the page itself ?

thanx.

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