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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add Iconography

Chris Huxtalble
Chris Huxtalble
1,514 Points
Posted by Chris Huxtalble
Chris Huxtalble
1,514 Points

When I add a margin of 10px on the bottom of the a elements, I don't see an increased space between the lines. Why?

My code is exactly the same as far as I can tell but no matter what margin value I put in, it seems to have no affect on webpage. Not sure what's going on.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Chris,

Can you post that portion of your css?

2 Answers

Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points
Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points

It would be helpful to see the code, but I suspect it's due to the fact that <a> elements are, by default, inline elements rather than block-level elements. This produces strange or no results when trying to apply top and bottom margins and other properties.

Try this and see how it goes:

a {
   display: block;
   margin-bottom: 10px; 
}

More information on block vs. inline elements.

Calvin Stiff
Calvin Stiff
501 Points
Calvin Stiff
Calvin Stiff
501 Points

I had this same problem, turns out I was missing a ':' after margin thus the code was ignored completely.