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Benjamin Hedgepeth
5,672 PointsBorder property and margin collapsing
I was curious about others thoughts of applying a transparent 1px border or padding through the universal selector to manage the nature of margin collapsing?
Is there any downside to this?
1 Answer
Mark Dekin
26,839 PointsWell one downside is keeping track of the pixel width and height of elements (including the border). Also, using it on the universal selector (*) could apply it to elements you don't want, and may require more CSS than necessary. A good way around the vertical margin collapse is by wrapping some things other block elements (like divs). but perhaps in practical use use, just use margin-bottom or margin-in-top. And increase it if needed. Really margin collapse is useful, and in actual use it doesn't really come up as a problem, I simply add to padding or margin when needed. I would not recommend using additional padding and transparent border on the universal selector as it requires more code writing in the long run