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Why am I losing my padding when nesting divs?

Asked by dyarosh in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

I have a problem with my CSS and Divs and don't know what it is.  I'm formatting my page in chunks and am working on each chunk individually to get it looking the way I want.  In the code that I've included, the <div> after the line <!-- Contact Area --> is the way I want the <div> to look.  The <div> after the line <!-- Blog Cell --> uses the same formatting but the Blog and Underline no longer are indented.  If I pull this <div> out of the <div id="contactme"> it works the way I want.  I can't figure out what I need to add to get it to work.Start Free Trial 
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HTML
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Test</title>
<link href="test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
 
<body>
 
<div id="blog_contactme">
 
	<!-- Blog cell -->
	<div class="blogcontact">
 
  		<div class="float_left"> 
			<a href="javascript:;" target="_top"><img name="bottom_index_r3_c2" src="assets_index_bottom/bottom_index_r3_c2.gif" width="44" height="12" border="0" alt="" class="blog_contact_padding"></a>	
    		<br />
    		<img name="bottom_index_r2_c6" src="assets_index_bottom/bottom_index_r2_c6.gif" width="147" height="23" border="0" alt="" class="blog_contact_padding">  
 		<!-- end div float_left --->	
    	</div>
	
		<div align="right"><a href="javascript:" target="_top"><img class="align_right" name="bottom_index_r2_c4" src="assets_index_bottom/bottom_index_r2_c4.jpg" width="147" height="98" border="0" alt=""></a>	</div>	
 
	<!-- end div blogcontact -->
	</div>
 
</div>
<br />
 
	
<!-- Contact Area -->
 
	<div class="blogcontact">
 
  		<div class="float_left"> 
			<a href="mailto:kathleen@virtualartslaw.com" target="_top"><img name="bottom_index_r3_c6" src="assets_index_bottom/bottom_index_r3_c6.gif" width="142" height="12" border="0" alt="" class="blog_contact_padding"></a>
    		<br />
			<img name="bottom_index_r4_c6" src="assets_index_bottom/bottom_index_r4_c6.gif" width="147" height="43" border="0" alt="" class="blog_contact_padding">
           	<a href="mailto:kathleen@virtualartslaw.com" target="_top"><img name="bottom_index_r5_c7" src="assets_index_bottom/bottom_index_r5_c7.gif" width="31" height="7" border="0" alt=""></a>
 
    	</div>
	
		<div align="right"><a href="mailto:kathleen@virtualartslaw.com" target="_top"><img name="bottom_index_r2_c10" src="assets_index_bottom/bottom_index_r2_c10.jpg" width="147" height="98" border="0" alt=""></a>	</div>	
 
 
	</div>
 
</body>
</html>
 
CSS
====
/* CSS Document */
@charset "utf-8";
 
* {
  margin-top: 0;
}
body {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:11px;
	text-align:left;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background-color: #ffffff;
}
div { 
	margin-left:0px; 
	margin-right:0px; 
	margin-top:0px; 
	margin-bottom:0px; 
}
#header
{
	height: 112px;
	width: 800px; 
	background-image:url(top_assets/header.jpg);
	float: left;
	position: relative;
}
#header_menu {
	position:absolute;
	bottom:0;
	margin-bottom:20px;
	margin-left: 530px;
}
#header h1 {
	text-indent: -9999px;
}
#maincontent {
	background-color: #e6e6cc;
	width: 800px;
	height: 529px;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}
#footer {
	width: 800px;
	font-size: 9px;
	background-color: #ffffff;
	color: #b7b793;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
	clear:both;
}
#footer img {
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}
.col1 {
	text-align:left;
	padding-left: 50px;
	float: left;
}
.col2 {
	text-align:center;
}
.col3 {
	text-align:right;
	padding-right: 10px;
}
#blog_contactme {
	width: 776px;
	height: 145px;
	background-color: #ffffff;
	position:relative;
	left: 10px;
	border-color:#808041;
	border-style:solid;
	border-width:thin;
}
#blog_contactme img {
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
	vertical-align:middle;
}
.blogcontact {
	width: 368px;
	height: 100px;
	border-color:#dadab4;
	border-style:solid;
	border-width:thin;
	margin:20px;
}
.blog_contact_padding {
	padding-left: 25px;
	padding-top: 20px;
}
.align_right {
	align: right;
}
.float_left {
	float: left;
}
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