CSS Forum

**dansgalaxy** · 11-28-2007, 01:40 PM

okay this will sound strange, how can i make things like top/side margins be 0 on one div but still affect the rest of the page?

im trying to make a banner things like hotscripts has so i can have messages etc on ALL my sites, and it needs to have 0px for top/left/right so how can i make the body margins Skip this div which will be right after the body tag. and then have the top and side margins?

Thanks,
TP if you can help.

**chrishirst** · 11-28-2007, 02:10 PM

You can't. <body> margins apply to everything inside the body

unless you started playing with negative margins on the header which would soon turn into a lot of messing about.

**vangogh** · 11-28-2007, 03:48 PM

Dan I think what you want to do is add an ID or class to the specific div you want to behave differently and then write styles for that div that overwrite the general styles you have for the body.

You can't really have the css skip one element, but you can overwrite the rules for that one element.

**dansgalaxy** · 11-28-2007, 04:09 PM

god this is annouying.

im not sure what you mean vangough, but im thinking i think the best i can do is contain the whole page in a div, add what ever margin settings to that, and then set the thing to 0 so the banner works.

This is all REALLY annouying i wanted to do it so i could just pop a snippet into it and it works

**joder** · 11-29-2007, 11:06 AM

I don't know why your having a problem if you want it like hotscripts. body margin:0, top div to go 100% across the page then
the wrapper div with the margins for the rest of the page which would be a container inside the container with the margins you want.

**dansgalaxy** · 11-29-2007, 12:39 PM

i know its not hard, its just mainly on my forum which is the pain because all of its template based and i cant be botherd ro find the right bits.

its done now, i couldnt be botherd with the margins... its not that important