Inline elements and padding

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Have you ever tried to add padding to <li> elements that have been set to “display: inline”? Did you find that the padding seemed to be rendering in an unusual way? Inline elements and padding explains why this occurs and one method that can be used to overcome the problem.

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Date: 19 November 2006
Author: Russ Weakley
Category: Articles, CSS, HTML
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Comments so far

  1. FLOODkOFF says:
    November 19, 2006 at 5:46 pm

    Thank you very much for this article. It’s usefull and understandable even for people that don’t speak English well!

  2. Helen Morgan says:
    November 20, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    Now that’s feedback worth having. Many people can’t communicate to people who speak their own language because their writing is so fussy. Well done Russ.