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Using padding on a parent element to avoid problems with margin widths


 

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Using padding on a parent element to avoid problems with margin widths</title>
  <style type="text/css">
    div {
      padding: 0 0 0 2em; 
    }
    p { 
      font-size: 1em;
      margin: 0;
    }
    h1 { 
      font-size: 1.5em;
      margin: 0;
    }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <div>
    <h1>A heading</h1>
    <p>Some body text</p>
  </div>
</body>
</html>