Please take a look at my test page here:
http://www.enviroquip.com/
I have two issues that I'm trying to resolve with either the margins or the padding property.
1. I need some space below each link to separate different links from each other. I've tried using margin-bottom and padding-bottom, but neither seems to show up.
2. I need to indent each link a few pixels to the left. Using padding-left or margin-left works on the first line, but if a link has 2 lines, I need the second one to be indented too. How can I do that with css?
You can view source to see the full css, but here's the relevant part:
#navlink .tmargin{
padding-bottom: 6px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
Each link has a class="tmargin" in the a href.
Thanks,
Paula Jakobs
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use div tags to control the layout, removed uneeded tmargin class and added divLink class to be used to control the div's
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1
<head>
<title>CSS Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#navlink .heading{
text-align: left;
vertical-align: middle;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #015385;
}
#navlink p{
text-align: left;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#navlink a:link {
color: #32B80E;
text-decoration: underline;
}
#navlink a:visited {
color: #32B80E;
text-decoration: underline;
}
#navlink a:active {
color: #cccccc;
}
#navlink a:hover {
color: #000000;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.divLink{
padding-bottom: 6px;
padding: 6px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td id="navlink"><p class="heading">Navigation
<p>Here's some nonindented text<span class="heading">.<br />
</span>
<div class="divLink"><a href="#" class="navlink">Here's a rather long link that takes up 2 lines</a></div>
<div class="divLink"><a href="#" class="navlink">Short Link</a></div>
<div class="divLink"><a href="#" class="navlink">Another short link</a></div>
<div class="divLink"><a href="#" class="navlink">Another Short Link</a></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Link to view the above code -> http://www.cyberspacesolut
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by: ljo8877Posted on 2006-03-03 at 15:24:39ID: 16099625
Well, you didn't provide th HTML, which is significant. So I'll assume this is the HTML
<div id=navlink>
<a href="page1.html" class="tmargin">text1</a>
<a href="page2.html" class="tmargin">text2</a>
<a href="page3.html" class="tmargin">text3</a>
<a href="page4.html" class="tmargin">text4</a>
<!-- This line is needed for option 1 below -->
<div style="height: 1px; clear: left;"> </div>
</div>
Padding doesn't apply to inline elements only block elements. This gives you two options
1. make the link a block element
#navlink .tmargin{
display: block; /* make padding and margins apply */
float: left; /* get them all on 1 line again */
padding-bottom: 6px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
2. Adjust the height with line-height
#navlink .tmargin{
line-height: 2;
}
and us nonbreaking spaces for the left padding
<a href="page4.html" class="tmargin"> &nbs