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White space &
Vertical Margin
With
Margin & Padding
Without
Margin & Padding
The padding and
margin properties
are very helpful
in adding space
between various
items on the page.
Designers refer to the space
between items on a page as
white space. Imagine you had
a border around a box. You
would not want the text to touch
this border or it would become
harder to read.
Or, imagine you had two boxes
sitting side by side (each with
a black border). You would not
necessarily want the boxes to
touch edges as this would make
the line look twice as thick on
the facing sides.
If the bottom margin of any
box touches the top margin of
another, the browser will render
it differently than you might
expect. It will only show the
larger of the two margins. If both
margins are the same size, it will
only show one.
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