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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Display Modes Block vs. Inline Elements

Mark Lawson
Mark Lawson
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Posted by Mark Lawson
Mark Lawson
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display: inline

He touches on the subject of display: inline and the fact you cannot add width of top and bottom margin to the items. Whats going on here? Why can you not apply these styles to inline styles?

Thanks

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Joey Bruijns
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I think it is because a inline element flows with the other content on the page and it can't break out of the normal document flow. Because of that you can't apply a style that forces a change in this flow, like margin-top and margin-bottom.

Cindy Lea
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Cindy Lea
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From what Im reading, if you use margins with inline elements, it will have no effect.

one site: This property has no effect on non-replaced inline elements, like <tt> or <span>.