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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Pick Fonts and Set Relative Units

Todd MacIntyre
Todd MacIntyre
12,248 Points
Posted by Todd MacIntyre
Todd MacIntyre
12,248 Points

Why when I add a 'margin' to 'h1' does the 'background-color' from my 'body' appear above 'h1' in the buffer zone?

Shouldn't this buffer carry the value of the 'header' back-ground color? Why is this not the case?

3 Answers

James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

Todd,

Here's a mnemonic I used to use to remember the order: MacBook Pro (MBP). Margin, Border, Padding.

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Margin creates room around the element. It isn't a physical part of the element. If you want to have the color around the element as well you need to use padding. Hopefully this example will help: http://codepen.io/savant/pen/mVRzwW

Todd MacIntyre
Todd MacIntyre
12,248 Points
Todd MacIntyre
Todd MacIntyre
12,248 Points

Yes, I recently found a nice diagram explaining this. Padding is inside the element's border and the margin is outside of its border: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5958699/difference-between-margin-and-padding