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HTML How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add and Style Icons

Posted by Lee Ann VanWinckel
Lee Ann VanWinckel
1,480 Points

Here is coding for a challenge. My question is why margins are necessary in the first and second set of coding?

/* ul.contact-info { font-size: 0.9em; margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }

ul.contact-info a { min-height: 20px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 20px 20px; padding: 0 0 0 30px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; display: block;

} */

2 Answers

Markus Ylisiurunen
Markus Ylisiurunen
15,034 Points
Markus Ylisiurunen
Markus Ylisiurunen
15,034 Points

The first set (ul.contact-info) clears the browser default styling to that <ul> element - as Dai said. The second set (ul.contact.info a) sets a padding for the left side and a margin to the bottom of the <a> element.

So the first set is just to clear the browser default settings and improve cross browser compatibility. The second set is to give a <a> elements a little room to click and space them properly.

Hopefully this helped you to understand it better.

Dai Phong
Dai Phong
20,395 Points
Dai Phong
Dai Phong
20,395 Points

to clear the browser default margin style