Showing posts with label CSS Margin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CSS Margin. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2012

CSS Margin


The CSS margin properties define the space around elements.

Margin

The margin clears an area around an element (outside the border). The margin does not have a background color, and is completely transparent.

The top, right, bottom, and left margin can be changed independently using separate properties. A shorthand margin property can also be used, to change all margins at once.

Possible Values

ValueDescription
autoThe browser calculates a margin
lengthSpecifies a margin in px, pt, cm, etc. Default value is 0px
%Specifies a margin in percent of the width of the containing element
inheritSpecifies that the margin should be inherited from the parent element

Remark It is possible to use negative values, to overlap content.


Margin - Individual sides

In CSS, it is possible to specify different margins for different sides:

Example

margin-top:100px;
margin-bottom:100px;
margin-right:50px;
margin-left:50px;

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Margin - Shorthand property

To shorten the code, it is possible to specify all the margin properties in one property. This is called a shorthand property.

The shorthand property for all the margin properties is "margin":

Example

margin:100px 50px;

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The margin property can have from one to four values.
  • margin:25px 50px 75px 100px;
    • top margin is 25px
    • right margin is 50px
    • bottom margin is 75px
    • left margin is 100px
  • margin:25px 50px 75px;
    • top margin is 25px
    • right and left margins are 50px
    • bottom margin is 75px
  • margin:25px 50px;
    • top and bottom margins are 25px
    • right and left margins are 50px
  • margin:25px;
    • all four margins are 25px

More Examples

Set the top margin of a text using a cm value
This example demonstrates how to set the top margin of a text using a cm value.

Set the bottom margin of a text using a percent value
This example demonstrates how to set the bottom margin in percent, relative to the width of the containing element.

All CSS Margin Properties

PropertyDescription
marginA shorthand property for setting the margin properties in one declaration
margin-bottomSets the bottom margin of an element
margin-leftSets the left margin of an element
margin-rightSets the right margin of an element
margin-topSets the top margin of an element