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I'm sure you've all seen blocks of text which have a color or an image as a background.
Most of the times – not always – that i see this people often make a pretty common mistake slip-up. By not leaving a space between the border of the text block and the text itself, you create a feeling of choking. Check out these examples.
Which of these two examples seem more comfortable to you?
This text block or this text block?
This is an even better example since the outer background color is the same as the inner text color, the boundaries are sort of blended. This is more readable.
The code to create the adequate padding couldn't be simpler. I'll apply the rule to the class .highlight.
.highlight {
padding-left: 3px;
padding-right: 3px;
}
It can still be shorthanded to padding: 0 3px 0;, if the padding-bottom and the padding-top are zero. If they're not, adjust the values.
jcraveiro on mon, 26 sep 2005 06:22
padding: 0 3px;("vertical" --- north and south --- padding to 0, "horizontal" --- east and west --- to 3px) ;)
andr3 on mon, 26 sep 2005 08:39
I could say it was on purpose, to allow specification of different padding on the top and on the bottom, but i'd be lying. ;) Thanks for correcting me.
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