Topic: xhtml body margin (Page 1 of 1)

just found out, that i cannot specify the topmaring="" leftmargin="" etc. attributes in xhtml.

what other possibilities do i have to make a borderside 0 length?

In the head

<style type="text/css">

html, body {

 margin: 0;

 padding: 0;

}

</style>

The padding is for Opera.
If you want to use say a 5 pixel margin you have to specify it like margin: 5px;

Hope that helps

And although HZR posted the important bit already, never forget that the OzoneAsylum FaqWiki has the answer to almost any question:

How do I get the contents of my webpage hard up against the side and top of the browser?

thanks, but it doesnt really solve my problem. netscape 4 just needs those attributes. so i cant make the site xhtml compliant.


another problem:
when i use php in my xhtml document.
it thinks the <?xml at the beginning should be parsed. is there another solution than echoing that line with php?

If it really has to work with Netscape 4 -

About the <?xml... line - It's really not needed and will only cause problems in IE6 which will use IE5's wrong box-model. Remove that line and include a character encoding with a meta tag in the head like this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

or whatever encoding you want to use.



[This message has been edited by HZR (edited 11-09-2002).]

GRUMBLE: I use a HERE document:
http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/798/

to store the <?xml tag - it isn't needed everywhere but can cause trouble in some situations.



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