Understanding HTML margins

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This topic explores the curious behaviour of HTML margins, which are a property of all HTML display elements like:

pages <body>
divisions <div>
tables <table>
table rows <tr>
table cells <td>
images <img>
horizontal rules <hr>
others??

[Col: Explore and document the strange behaviour of the right margin of an element which pushes out the right margin of a parent. For example, the 5px setting of the p.copyright rule pushes out the width of the parent div#PageDiv element in the topic EnglishWeightsMeasures.htm.]

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The basic structure of an HTML table is described in Jump across to separate topic Understanding HTML Tables.

Understanding HTML margins

Table Margins

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