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Casiey Lebron
Casiey Lebron
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Posted by Casiey Lebron
Casiey Lebron
3,187 Points

When I played around with the Margins and borders I was only able to see a shift in my content- Is that normal?

Originally all of my text was centered in my page. playing around with the margins and borders my content was shifted left - Are margins and borders just typically used for page alignment purposes?

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bleedcmyk
bleedcmyk
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bleedcmyk
bleedcmyk
5,945 Points

Typically margin's are used to give spacing between elements (Like two buttons that are too close to each other), padding is used to give spacing to elements inside of elements (Like text inside of a content box), and borders are used to give elements an outline.

To answer your question more specifically, margins, padding, floats, transforms, and display are typically used for page layout.

Borders not so much.

Christopher Mlalazi
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Christopher Mlalazi
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Christopher Mlalazi
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Christopher Mlalazi
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It is good to play around with margins/borders and padding so that you can be able to see what effect these have on your content and then you decide what is best for yourself.