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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jon Free <jon at tangymedia.co.uk> wrote:
> IE margins!?
>
> Does the reset.css handle this and if so which bit?

(long list of selectors) {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  /* etc. etc */
}

It basically tells the browser to zero out the margin and padding (and
other stuff) for the selectors listed (this is better than using *,
the universal selector as it's too heavy-handed) rather than use its
default styles, which do vary from browser to browser.

It ensures you're starting at a known point, no matter which browser
is viewing the content.

> As mentioned by someone
> else this is more than likely a rounding error due to the way in which it
> occurs. I'm still surprised it does it though, and it's a pain as I wanted
> it as simple as possible.

This could well be the case. Rounding errors/differences between
browsers have been known to do this. Work around it by using width:
auto (which is the default) rather than 100%, perhaps? As has been
said, a block element will expand to fill its container's width
anyway.

Tim