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Common css mistakes - no more
- ahemphill 16y agoI'm not understanding the padding/margin argument. They are separate things.
- jpdugan 16y agoI had the same initial reaction. On further thought, I think the author understands the difference. The problem is that he's not a very good writer. When he writes "one single space", he means what we all think of as padding in one direction or margin in one direction. I think all he's really saying is "don't create extra padding by adding margin" and "don't create extra margin by adding padding." The argument is valid: it's just kind of obvious and poorly worded.
- raimondious 16y agoThe other reason not to use margin and padding together is that you'll have less inconsistencies between browsers (i.e., IE6 vs every other browser — these properties are a source of a lot of annoying IE6 bugs).
- johnkary 16y agoThe biggest mistake I see isn't syntactical, but in implementation. Using too many effects just because you can and it's relatively easy. I think your site falls victim to my point above due to (1) Abuse of rounded corners (it's OK to be square, man) (2) Abuse of drop-shadows (not every element needs a drop-shadow!)
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoA page can have 1em margin from the body and 4em padding for the text. So #2 is questionable.
- peteysd 16y agoI find the image used in the "collapsing margins" post referenced in this posting to be in extremely poor taste.