I'll build this into next week with some examples.

Cheers, Karen

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From: Equal Access to Software & Information
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Sent: February-09-12 3:29 PM
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Subject: Re: A couple questions for Karen from week 2

Could you again clarify the difference between the way the padding and the
margin features work?
At 10:06 AM 2/9/2012, you wrote:
>Norm:
>
>Great questions. Think of the "margin" as the area around a page, or in 
>this case around the screen. So you can have a margin that places 
>content at a margin of 10% from the left, right, top or bottom of the
screen.
>
>Padding is correct, the space between the border and the text inside 
>the "box" or border. You can - or should be able to - use the padding 
>inside a table much like you use cell margins in Word to put space 
>between the gridlines and the text in a cell...but that is for next week.
>
>Cheers, Karen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Equal Access to Software & Information 
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>Sent: February-09-12 12:22 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: A couple questions for Karen from week 2
>
>Hi:
>
>Because I have zero vision, I am unable to check my understanding of 
>CSS by trying it and seeing how it looks. Otherwise, I could probably 
>answer my own questions by trial and error.
>
>You mentioned padding and margins. In my mind, they sound sort of like 
>the same thing but I guess not.
>Here is my guess and you can straighten me out......
>I can set up a border. Then the padding will be the space between the 
>border and the edges of the monitor.
>I can also set up margins and that will be the space inside the borders 
>before the actual text.
>
>It is almost like 2 margins one margin outside the border and the other 
>inside the border.
>
>Now what of my understanding is wrong and which is correct???
>
>Thanks.
>
>Norm
>
>
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